Joshua Michals is accused of leaving partner and fellow student Zhe Wang to die in a ‘pool of blood’
American killed fellow Goldsmiths student ‘after she urged him to take an STI test after sex’, court told
An American student killed his Chinese partner in a “savage attack” after she urged him to take an STI test following sex, a court heard.
Zhe Wang, 31, was found dead in a “pool of blood” by police last March after she was allegedly attacked by 25-year-old Joshua Michals, a fellow student at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Michals is now on trial at Woolwich Crown Court for Ms Wang’s murder, accused by prosecutors of leaving her “face-up on her bedroom floor with two penetrating stab wounds to the face, lying in a pool of blood soaked into the carpet”. He denies the charge.
In the run-up to Michals’s visit to Ms Wang’s flat, she had been pushing him to take an STI test “against his resistance” after she noticed a rash on her body after they had intercourse. WhatsApp chats show Ms Wang had accused him of “ruining her life and threatening to ask the university for help”.
American killed fellow Goldsmiths student ‘after she urged him to take an STI test after sex’, court told