Overview
- Jurors found 26-year-old Joshua Michals guilty after 16-and-a-half hours of deliberations and he was remanded in custody.
- A post-mortem found two stab wounds to the face and sustained compression of the neck at Wang’s Hither Green flat on 20 March 2024.
- Detectives retrieved deleted WhatsApp messages and Uber records and seized bloodstained clothing from Michals’ home that matched Wang’s DNA.
- Prosecutors said Michals called his father for a solicitor, left by Uber, and waited roughly four hours before dialing 999.
- Michals claimed self-defence during a dispute over STI testing, but the jury rejected his account; Goldsmiths plans to publish Wang’s writing posthumously.