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Dublin man accused of murdering wife on cruise ship considering changing his name
This year marks the sixth anniversary of Xing-Li’s disappearance from the MSC Magnifica — with no trace of her ever being found30 AUG 2023
Daniel Belling outside his home in Clare Village Coolock (Image: Stephen Collins)
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A man who is accused of murdering his wife on a cruise ship says he’s considering changing his name — as he can’t get a job in Ireland.
Daniel Belling, 49, who is living in Coolock, is accused in Italy of murdering his missing wife Xing-Li, 38, while they were on a Mediterranean cruise in February 2017. But Belling, who has refused to travel to Italy to face trial, says he still has no intention of handing himself over to the authorities — and now he’s struggling to find any work here in Ireland because of the case.
“I’m just scraping by. Things are tight and I am not working. Because this court case is looming, who wants to employ me? It’s a risk for the employer as well,” he said. "Yes (I went for interviews). Sometimes it was positive and then yeah when they heard or they Googled my name yeah... from their point of view it’s of course a risk. I understand.”
He then said: “Maybe I need to change my name or something.” Belling is technically already on trial in Italy — despite not being present there himself.
He now believes the trial is set to resume in the coming weeks, where hundreds of witnesses have in the meantime given statements which are being gathered by prosecutors. But Belling believes there is “no evidence” against him.
He said that the prosecution was absurd. “It’s smoke and mirrors basically. There is no evidence. It’s just a story told by the prosecution and in essence they don’t have anything because they cannot have anything because I’m innocent,” he said.
Last year Belling was handed a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence before the Irish courts after pleading guilty on his trial date to one count of dishonestly inducing the Bank of Ireland to provide a mortgage loan of €112,500 on March 13th, 2014.
Daniel Belling with his wife Xing Lei Li (from television program 'Chi lha visto?')
Belling sensationally claimed that his missing wife was the driver behind a scheme to falsify documents to obtain a mortgage. The judge said the allegation he made against his wife “should be taken with a pinch of salt”.
Now Belling says he’s sold the property — and claims he’s going to use the money to pay off his many debts. “The court case was about that. That’s sold,” he said.
“I was never living there. But to pay back the debt, because I’ve accumulated debt, (I’ve sold it). It should be in the next few days or weeks but yeah the contracts are signed. There’s been so much delay. I have debts to pay also to my family and to the management company.”
Read more: Dublin man pleads innocence in case of wife who vanished from cruise ship
Asked if he is doing anything to try and find his missing wife — who he has previously said could still be alive — Belling said there was little he could do from Ireland, especially with no income. “What can I do, my options are limited?” he said.
This year marks the sixth anniversary of Xing-Li’s disappearance from the MSC Magnifica — with no trace of her ever being found. Speaking to us earlier this year Belling said that even if his wife does turn up alive he doesn’t want to live with her.
“It would be great, yeah, but only if you could live in two different locations. So not together in the same apartment because that would be too oppressive for me,” he told us in an exclusive interview.
Mr Belling, who denies murdering his wife, also claimed that his relationship with her was strained before she vanished while on a 10 day cruise with him. “I think the relationship would have been better if we had lived in two different locations,” he said.
Mr Belling has previously put forward the theory that his wife may have fallen foul of persons she was doing business with — and that they murdered her. He has also claimed that she might have returned to China and is living there today.
Man accused of cruise ship mystery murder insists he did not kill his wife
He described her as a “cruel person” for allowing him to spend 14 months in jail06:10, 21 JUL 2022
20/07/22 Daniel Belling outside his home in Clare Village Coolock Pic Stephen Collins/Collins (Image: Stephen Collins)
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A man accused of murdering his wife on a cruise ship has insisted: “I am not a killer.”
German national Daniel Belling, 49, who is living in Coolock, North Dublin, is on trial in absentia in Italy – accused of murdering his missing wife Xing-Li, 38, while they were on a Mediterranean cruise in 2017.
And just last week Mr Belling was before an Irish court, where he received a three-year suspended sentence for falsifying documents to obtain a mortgage – something he blamed his missing wife for.
Speaking exclusively to the Irish Mirror, Mr Belling insisted he did not cause the disappearance of his wife from the cruise ship and that he now believes she is probably dead, having previously said she was likely alive.
Mr Belling has in the past stated he believed his wife fled the cruise ship and went to China –but now appears to have changed his mind.
He said: “She would not have left the children like this. Why would she not come back? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Mr Belling, Ms Xing and their two children boarded cruise ship MSC Magnifica in the Italian port of Civitavecchia in February 2017 – but later crew members noticed that she was missing when they did a headcount. Mr Belling, who spent 14 months on remand in an Italian prison before he was released and returned to Ireland in 2018, claims his wife could have been killed because she had information someone didn’t want out. He said: “I think [someone] may have killed her. Maybe she knew
something. I don’t know, she just said on the cruise ‘I will be back, I need to do some business’.”
But Mr Belling also suggested his wife had psychological issues – and this could have played a part.
He added: “I think she was depressive in her anger management issues so I think it’s something psychological also.
“I don’t know why she wouldn’t come back. Like, is she in a coma maybe?” Italian prosecutors now allege that Mr Belling killed his wife and disposed of her body at sea.
His trial continues in Italy in his absence – something which is allowed under Italian law.
Speaking in Italy after his release in 2018, Mr Belling said he believed his wife had arranged her disappearance.
He described her as a “cruel person” for allowing him to spend 14 months in jail for a crime “I did not commit”.
Asked if he was a killer Mr Belling responded: “No I am not. They don’t have any evidence.”
He also said that he doesn’t know how to respond to those who may believe he murdered his wife.
“I don’t know what to say to that,” he said.
But he said people cannot make their own judgement when he says the full facts of what happened are not out there.
“One cannot have an opinion about any court case where one is not involved.
“They don’t have any evidence,” he claimed.
Mr Belling’s trial continues in Italy in his absence - something which is allowed under Italian law.
And when asked if he intends to attend any of the trial, Mr Belling claimed he would - but only if he is not jailed again.
“I will be invited as a witness. I intend to go if they guarantee that I am not put into jail again,” he said.
We then asked him whether he would fight any European Arrest Warrant that could potentially be issued for him - should be be convicted of murder in Italy.
“Of course. I have no intention of going to jail. It would be unjust.
Crazy,” he said.
He added that he would also appeal any conviction and compared his case to that of Francesco Schettino - the captain of cruise ship Costa Concordia,
who was jailed for 16 years for his role in a horror capsizing incident that led to the death of 32 passengers and crew.
“I will definitely appeal, like that Captain of the Costa Concordia. He also appealed.”
Last week Mr Belling was spared a jail sentence when he appeared before Dublin’s Circuit Court and had pleaded guilty to one count of dishonestly inducing the Bank of Ireland to providing a mortgage loan of €112,500 on 13
March 2014.
On five other occasions, Belling used false documents on dates between July 1, 2013 and January 27, 2015 to attempt to apply for loans.
Mr Belling claimed in court that his wife was behind the scheme - though presiding judge Martin Nolan said he would take that explanation “with a pinch of salt.”
Speaking to this paper Mr Belling insisted that he was telling the truth -
though he admits he cannot prove it, given the fact that his wife is missing.
“I stand by that, yes. But how can I prove that? That is why the judge said he took it with a pinch of salt,” he said.
But he said he was grateful to the judge for sparing him a jail sentence.
“I am grateful.
“I am really happy, especially for the kids. It has been very difficult to organise things.”
He added that he is eager now for the trial in Italy to come to a conclusion, and hopes he can be able to move on with his life.
“It is dragging on and on. It’s crazy that it takes so long,” he said.
Mr Belling previously told an Italian judge that he and his wife had fought and that she wanted to “quit the trip”.
According to reports, he claimed his wife left the ship when he and the children joined a shore excursion.
Speaking in Italy after his release in 2018, Mr Belling at the time said he believed she had arranged her disappearance.
He described her as a “cruel person” for allowing him to spend 14 months in jail for a crime “I did not commit”.
She had said that to me earlier before too so I was just like OK.
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