Recently, the official of Hubei Wuxue Court released a trial result. According to official micro-data, on September 15, the Wuxue Court moved the court to a village in Yuchuan Town, Wuxue City, and opened a public hearing to hear the case of the defendant Zhang Moumou suspected of fire and sentenced him in court. In December
2022, the defendant Zhang Moumou accidentally burned the photovoltaic panels of a nearby New Energy Co., Ltd. due to the spread of the fire in the process of burning weeds on the ridge of his farmland in a village of Yuchuan Town. According to the appraisal of Wuxue Price Service Center, the burned photovoltaic panels are worth more than 2.4 million yuan . In addition, it was found that an insurance company paid more than 2 million yuan to the new energy company . After trial,
the court held that the defendant Zhang Moumou caused a fire by negligence, causing heavy losses to public and private property, which violated the provisions of Article 115, paragraph 2, of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and constituted the crime of fire. The defendant, Zhang Mou-mou, voluntarily surrenders after committing a crime and truthfully confesses his crime, which is voluntary surrender and voluntary confession of guilt and punishment, and shall be given a lighter punishment according to law when sentencing. The Wuxue Community Correction Administration assessed that the defendant Zhang Mou-mou was suitable for community correction. The court sentenced the defendant Zhang Mou to two years and one month's imprisonment and three years'probation.