American killed fellow Goldsmiths student ‘after she urged him to take an STI test after sex’, court told Joshua Michals is accused of leaving partner and fellow student Zhe Wang to die in a ‘pool of blood’.
Henrietta Paget KC, prosecuting, told the court that Michals called for an ambulance at 11.08pm on 20 March 2024, explaining there had been a “very serious incident” in Ms Wang’s flat in Manor Park, Lewisham.
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.
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.
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.
