"An American student has been been jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years for murdering his on-and-off girlfriend in her south-east London home. Joshua Michals, 26, stabbed fellow Goldsmiths University student Zhe Wang, 31, at her flat in Manor Park, Lewisham, in March 2024. Creative writing student Wang suffered two stab wounds to the face and a post-mortem examination also revealed she had been strangled."
"Michals told his Old Bailey trial that he had been acting in self-defence stemming from an argument about a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Michals, who was found guilty of murder in December following the trial, was sentenced at the same court on Friday. Met Police Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Michals studied film-making at university before moving to London to pursue a year-long master's degree at Goldsmiths."
"They had first met on the Goldsmiths campus and began an on-and-off casual relationship in 2023. Michals told jurors he had felt "so-so" about pursuing a relationship with Wang because she had a phobia of germs. After finding a "red dot" on her skin after the pair had sex, she demanded he get an STD test, the court previously heard. Jurors were told Michals, of Deals Gateway, south-east London, never had a sexually transmitted disease."
Joshua Michals, a 26-year-old American master's student at Goldsmiths, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years after being found guilty of murdering 31-year-old creative writing student Zhe Wang in March 2024 at her Lewisham flat. Wang suffered two stab wounds to the face and had been strangled. Michals claimed self-defence following an argument about an alleged sexually transmitted disease and said he visited with a charcuterie to bring "normalcy" to a "bizarre situation." Jurors heard they had an on-and-off relationship and that Michals did not have an STD; prosecutors said he "flown into a rage."
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