Overview
- Jurors reached a guilty verdict after about 16.5 hours of deliberation, with Judge Richard Marks to set a life sentence minimum term at a later hearing.
- A post-mortem found two stab wounds to the face and compression to the neck as the cause of death.
- Prosecutors said the attack followed an argument over sexually transmitted infection concerns, while the defendant claimed self-defence.
- Court and police evidence showed he contacted his father for a lawyer, left by Uber, waited hours to call 999, deleted messages, and discarded items including the victim’s phone later recovered in Newham.
- The prosecution said Wang may have been breathing for 30 to 60 minutes after the attack, and Goldsmiths paid tribute and plans to publish her writing posthumously.