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A student from China was sentenced to 20 years in Jail for killing his girlfriend in Australia's Sydney. Weijie He spent months in hospital after he was found on the footpath at Wolli Creek in June 2020 with serious injuries after falling four storeys.24-year-old viciously attacked his girlfriend, Liqun Pan, with a hammer and two knives. Pan was stabbed at least 75 times to death at her Sydney apartment on June 27, 2020. The accused Weijie pleaded guilty to murder, but the NSW Supreme Court found that while he was entitled to a 25% sentence reduction due to the timing of the plea.Also Read | US Fire: Over 1.2 Million Chickens Burn to Death in Massive Blaze at Egg Facility in Illinois (Watch Video).According to the court, the accused was influenced by drugs. Ms Lonergan said the influence of the nitrous oxide canisters was only a partially mitigating factor given “his repeated use and abuse” of the drug. “(Wejie) was in self-inflicted, transient drug-induced psychosis … and in that state he directed his rage to Ms Liqun, killing her in a frenzied and merciless attack,” she said.Also taken into account were Wejie’s lifelong injuries as a result of the fall, which included ongoing short-term memory problems and use of a wheelchair. Justice Lonergan told the court that Wejie first met Ms Liqun in Shanghai, China and that she had emigrated to Australia in October 2018 to be with the university student.

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International :Chinese Student Sentenced to 20 Years in Australia for Stabbing Girlfriend 75 Times to Death

A student from China was sentenced to 20 years in Jail for killing his girlfriend in Australia's Sydney. Weijie ... ...