A wealthy US student who friends said had “everything going for him” tried to get rid of incriminating evidence and took an Uber back to his house after murdering his girlfriend, a judge in the UK was told.

Joshua Michals , 26, faces life in prison after he was found guilty of stabbing fellow student Zhe Wang, 31, to death following an argument at her southeast London apartment.

After stabbing his on-and-off lover in the face and leaning on her neck, Michals left her dying in a pool of blood in her bedroom following the savage attack on March 20, 2024, the judge at London’s Old Bailey court was told.

Instead of calling an ambulance, Michals dumped Wang’s phone and the food he had brought over to her home in a trash bag, threw it in the communal trash area outside and took an Uber back

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