Liqun Pan,19, was fatally stabbed by her partner in an apartment littered with empty nitrous oxide canisters. He fell four floors and spent months in a coma before his arrest.
A man who murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend after bingeing on five boxes of “nangs” in the days before has been sentenced to a maximum of 20 years behind bars for the “extremely violent and merciless” attack.
Justice Julia Lonergan found he was under a “self-inflicted drug-induced transient psychosis” at the time of the murder from prolonged “nang” use, which He developed after the pair travelled from China to Australia to study together. He spent seven months in a coma before being charged with murder. He suffered a brain injury but was found fit to stand trial, though he ultimately pleaded guilty in late 2022.When He began to wake up from his coma, Lonergan said his parents told him on at least two hospital visits to say nothing about having beaten up Pan in the past.He’s parents have not been charged with any wrongdoing.
Police found empty boxes and canisters of the drug littered around the apartment. The court heard Pan complained to a friend He had consumed five boxes two days before she was killed.The defence argued He was experiencing a psychotic episode related to drug-induced psychosis at the time, which would reduce his moral culpability. The Crown prosecutor argued he was simply high off the drug, which would not warrant a lesser penalty.
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