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A suspicious uncle cut off his dead brother’s ear in a failed attempt to prove his nephew was the illegitimate heir to a million-dollar house.
Jian Zhong Li, 69, had long suspected that his nephew, Cheng Zhang Li, was not the biological son of his brother Jiang Ming Li.
His suspicions apparently arose from his nephew’s thick beard, a trait no one else in the family shared.
Li’s attempts to have his nephew take a paternity test were rebuffed, so when his brother died in March 2022, he hatched a plan with another relative to obtain his DNA and prove his suspicions once and for all.
On the day of the funeral, Li and his accomplice sneaked inside the South Chapel at Rookwood Cemetery, where they opened the coffin, unzipped the body bag, and used a pair of pliers to cut off part of Jiang Ming’s ear. .
He kept it inside a glass jar in his freezer while he took legal action against his nephew in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
Jian Zhong Li, 69, had long suspected that his nephew, Cheng Zhang Li, was not his brother Jiang Ming Li’s biological son, so he cut off part of his brother’s ear in an unsuccessful attempt to confirm his paternity (pictured: Li posing with the sharp pliers he used in the gruesome act)
Li attempted to justify his actions in an interview with A Current Affair that left host Allison Langdon temporarily speechless.
“Wow, I’m not sure what to say about that… And it was all about a beard,” she said.
Li’s macabre act remained a secret for more than a year before Li let slip to the funeral director, who informed the police.
Last week, Li lost an appeal against a $1,500 fine for improperly interfering with a dead body.
But he defended his actions in the bizarre interview with A Current Affair on Monday.
Current Affair host Allison Langdon (pictured) was left temporarily speechless by the report.
How did you feel when you cut off your dead brother’s ear? He’s pretty disgusting,” journalist Hannah Sinclair asked.
‘I also worry a lot about doing these things. “I don’t like doing it,” Li said.
The journalist then asked if Li knew what he had done was wrong.
“There is no other way to solve this problem,” Li responded.
However, a subsequent biological test revealed that Cheng Zhang Li is Jian Ming Li’s biological son.
But Li refused to believe it and hopes that hearing can be used to verify the claim.
‘I evaluate. Double check,’ she told the show.
Li claimed his 91-year-old mother was owed some of the money from her deceased son’s estate.
“The mother has to receive some maintenance…because the place where she lives is in very bad condition,” he said.
He previously wrote an apology letter to the court, claiming he was only trying to protect his family.
“I’m sorry to the court for doing this, I didn’t mean to break the law, I didn’t think correctly at the time, I’m sorry to the community,” he wrote.
The family’s court battle over the million-dollar property in Petersham, in Sydney’s inner west, continues.