Overview
- An Old Bailey jury found the 26-year-old guilty of murdering Zhe Wang at her Hither Green flat after 16 and a half hours of deliberation.
- Detectives retrieved deleted WhatsApp messages showing months of tension over Wang’s repeated requests that Michals get tested for sexually transmitted infections.
- Uber records showed he left the flat about 40 minutes after arriving and waited nearly four hours before calling 999 at 23:08.
- A post-mortem found two stab wounds to Wang’s face and sustained compression of the neck.
- Prosecutors said he took Wang’s phone and called his father for a solicitor before contacting emergency services, and he has been remanded pending sentencing with life imprisonment possible under UK law.