Xiang Lei Li (38) went missing while on cruise with husband and two children in Italy in early 2017
Daniel Belling, who has lived in Dublin with his children for many years, was last week sentenced by an Italian court to a prison sentence of 26 years. Photograph: Collins Courts
Ms Xiang went missing while on a 10-day Mediterranean cruise in 2017, and Belling denied that he killed her. Through his Italian lawyer, he has told The Irish Times he would appeal his conviction. Belling, with addresses at Kilkee House, Clarke Village, Coolock, Dublin 17, and more recently in Cork, is the father of two young children which he had during his marriage to his Chinese wife, who is missing and assumed to have been murdered by the Italian authorities.
On five other occasions, Belling used false documents on dates between July 1st, 2013, and January 27th, 2015, to attempt to apply for loans, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard. Passing sentence of 3½ years which was suspended fully in July 2022, Judge Martin Nolan said this offence was a “classic white-collar crime”.
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