Overview
- Jurors deliberated for about 16 and a half hours before returning a guilty verdict.
- Recovered WhatsApp messages, Uber timestamps, and a phone found at a Newham refuse site helped prosecutors dismantle the self‑defence claim.
- A post-mortem found two stab wounds to the face and sustained compression of the neck.
- Bloodstained clothing seized from Michals’ home matched Zhe Wang’s DNA, and he was arrested the same evening.
- Evidence showed Michals called his father for a solicitor and waited hours to dial 999, while Goldsmiths paid tribute to Wang’s work and police condemned violence against women.