A 14-year-old girl in northern China has written to a court begging it to be lenient with her father who electrocuted her mother to death while she was taking a shower.

The case has sparked a heated discussion on mainland social media after the judgment made by a court in Hebei province was released to the public in early November.

The man, surnamed Yang, 36, was sentenced to life in jail for killing his wife, Yin, by electrocution in March 2023, Red Star News reported.

The couple married in 2010 but during the period from 2014 to 2017 they divorced and both of them remarried. The couple have a daughter and a son, who are 14 and two years old respectively.

Yang said he had serious conflicts with Yin because she got along badly with his mother and he suspected she had an affair.