Family’s ‘Unspeakable’ Grief for Slain Daughter

A Chinese man’s brutal killing of his girlfriend before he fell from a Sydney unit block left the woman’s devastated family in immeasurable grief and pain, a court has heard. Weijie He stabbed 19-year-old student Liqun Pan in the southern Sydney suburb of Wolli Creek on June 27, 2020, before he fell from the fourth floor of the apartment building. An emotional statement from Ms. Pan’s father was read out in the New South Wales (NSW) Supreme Court on April 2, as her 24-year-old killer listened on wearing prison greens and seated in a wheelchair. “Our hope and happiness evaporated the moment her life was viciously taken away,” Zewu Pan said in the statement, which was written in Mandarin but read to the court in English....