Jail for cold, calm killer
A JEALOUS woman who mercilessly stabbed her former lover 58 times as she lay injured after falling from a fifthfloor balcony in inner Sydney has been jailed for at least 19 years.
Zixi “Jessy” Wang was yesterday sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court to 25 years and six months, with a non-parole period of 19 years, for the brutal murder of her ex-girlfriend Shuyu “Lianne” Zhou in June
Zixi Wang.
last year. CCTV captured the moment Wang inflicted 40 stab wounds and another 18 puncture and incision wounds to Ms Zhou, 23, following a fight in her Zetland apartment.
It’s still unknown how Ms Zhou came to fall from Wang’s balcony. However, it is known that the two were involved in a fight in the Rose Valley Way apartment in the minutes preceding the shocking incident.
Ms Zhou had gone to Wang’s apartment on the night of June 19 to collect belongings after the breakdown of their two-year relationship.
Neighbours reported hearing shouting, items being smashed, a person crying and the sound of an object being dragged along the ground. A short time later, Ms Zhou fell from the fifth-floor balcony.
Judge Robert Beech-jones said he believed Ms Zhou climbed onto the railing while trying to escape Wang.
On CCTV, Wang is seen descending in an elevator to the street, standing over Ms Zhou before returning to her apartment, all the while failing to render assistance.
While Wang’s defence claimed she was affected by alcohol, Justice Beech-jones said she seemed in control, composed and deliberate, noting that she stopped to check her hair in a mirror in the lift. She then returned, having changed her pants, removed a knife and slashed at Ms Zhou’s head, throat, neck and upper body in a frenzied attack that lasted nearly two minutes.
“This was a particularly heinous crime,” Justice BeechJones said.
“How could the feelings of anger, bitterness and rejection welled up in the offender following the breakdown of her relationship with Ms Zhou not dissipate to at least allow her to have at least some modicum of sympathy as she saw Ms Zhou helpless and writhing in agony after that fall onto the sidewalk?”
The CCTV, described by Justice Beech-jones as “graphic and disturbing”, showed the moment Ms Zhou’s body landed on a fence before flipping vertically and landing on the pavement. Wang will be eligible for parole in June 2038.