By John Hall A Chinese man has been jailed for 11 years for cutting off his nine-year-old stepson's hand with a meat cleaver and boiling it so it would be impossible for surgeons to reattach. Wang Xinyu, 31, met the boy's mother Xiao Shen just over a year ago and the pair had been looking at buying a flat together in Shenyang - a city in east China's Liaoning province. But after the couple had a furious telephone argument about money, Wang lost his temper and began beating Xiao Jun with a stick before cutting off his hand with a meat cleaver and throwing it into a pot of boiling water that was being used to cook their evening meal.
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Wang Xinyu, 31, cut off nine-year-old Xiao Jun's hand after losing temper
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He had just had a telephone argument with Jun's mother about money
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Grabbed meat cleaver and cut off defenceless boy's right hand at wrist
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Threw severed hand into pot of boiling water being used to make dinner
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Hand was so badly damaged that surgeons were unable to reattach it
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