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A convicted murderer, who was India’s oldest inmate, has been released from prison at the age of 108.
一名被定罪的謀殺犯、印度最年老囚犯，已在108歲高齡時獲釋出獄。
Brij Bihari Pandey, a Hindu priest, was serving a life sentence for the murder of four people in 1987, when he was 84.
畢哈利是一名印度教教士，他在1987年84歲時因謀殺4人，被判處無期徒刑。
Officials at Gorakhpur jail in Uttar Pradesh state say Mr Bihari, who requires regular hospital visits, was freed on humanitarian grounds. As he is unable to walk, relatives carried him from prison to a waiting car.
北方邦戈拉克普爾監獄官員表示，需要定期就醫的畢哈利，基於人道理由而獲釋。由於他不良於行，親人把他由監獄抬往一輛等候的汽車。
"It was getting difficult to take care of a 108-year-old prisoner," said jail Supt SK Sharma. "We moved an application for his release and the court accepted it."
典獄長夏爾馬說：「照顧一名108歲的囚犯會愈來愈困難。我們申請把他釋放，獲得法庭批准。」
In 1987, Mr Bihari and 15 others - many of them his nephews and family members - killed four people over the appointment of a rival as chief priest of a Hindu temple.
1987年，畢哈利連同其他15人—其中多人為他的侄甥及家人—殺害了4人。原因為他的對手被任命為一座印度廟住持。
After a trial lasting more than two decades he was sentenced in 2009 but had to be frequently rushed to hospital and was mostly bed-ridden.
歷經延續20多年的審判後，他於2009年被判刑，不過經常必須被緊急送醫，且多數時間臥病在床。
新聞辭典
inmate：名詞，囚犯；住院者；同坐牢的人。例句：The prisoner is his inmate. （那個囚犯是他的牢友。）
Supt：為Superintendent的縮寫，本文中指「典獄長」。
bed-ridden︰形容詞，臥床不起的。其相反詞是ambulatory，意指適宜下床走動的。
source: http://iservice.libertytimes.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=507027&day=2011-07-09
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