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A 54-year-old University of West London lecturer, Dr Ying Zhang, stabbed his wife Hannan Xiao ten times in an attempt to kill her for trying to divorce him.
According to MyLondon, Zhang repeatedly knifed his estranged wife in the chest, back and neck with a kitchen knife in September 2021 outside their children’s school.
The brutal attack was said to have caused Hannan life-threatening injuries.
The report says jurors heard that the attack came after Zhang refused to accept the end of his marriage and was “in a state of cold fury” following her decision to file for divorce.
This came after several incidents of domestic violence, and Zhang was already the subject of a non-molestation order after he threatened to kill her in August 2020.
According to the news medium, the lecturer who specialised in computer science had been married to Ms Xiao, another “distinguished academic” since 2006 but their relationship had been “marred by domestic violence”.
On September 21, Ms Xiao attended a parents evening at her child’s school in Barnet at 7 pm. Despite Zhang not being invited or expected to attend, he had been notified of the meeting and Ms Xiao was left “shocked” to discover him waiting for her outside.
