Three robbers, together with two other suspects, robbed a brick factory owner of 6,000 yuan (US$723) in 1995. They fled to other provinces and changed their names.However the three criminals were caught recently after nine years at large.According to a report, two of them were caught early this year, one in South China's Guangdong Province and the other in Fengxian in Shanghai. They were sentenced to either five or six years imprisonment by Nanhui District Court.The third, already in jail for another crime, was charged for a second time.

(Lawyer Wu Yingjie)