Family’s ‘Unspeakable’ Grief for Slain Daughter

‘The immeasurable pain crushed everyone. We couldn’t accept it was true.’

Police block off a street at Bondi Junction, an eastern suburb of Sydney on June 27, 2023 after a shooting incident. Australian police said a man was killed in Sydney's famed Bondi neighbourhood on June 27, in what local media called a "gang hit". (Photo by Andrew LEESON / AFP) Photo by ANDREW LEESON/AFP via Getty Images

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.