New Zealander who dumped daughter guilty of wife's murder
Last Updated: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:16:00 +1000
A New Zealand man at the centre of an international manhunt after abandoning his three-year-old daughter at an Australian railway station has been found guilty of murdering his wife.
New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie reports.
Nai Yin Xue has always denied strangling his 27-year-old wife An An Liu in Auckland in 2007.
Her body was found in the boot of Xue's car, with his necktie still wrapped around her throat.
A few days earlier, their three-year-old daughter Qian Xun Xue was found wandering alone at Melbourne's Southern Cross railway station.
As the all-female jury delivered its guilty verdict, some jurors were crying.
Xue pumped his fist in the air and shouted it was "unfair" and said "I'm innocent."
Xue receives a mandatory life sentence. The non-parole period will be fixed at a hearing next month.
His daughter is being raised by her maternal grandmother in China.
