A court in southeast China sentenced a former top student to death on Thursday after the man was convicted of murdering his mother to “help her”.
Wu Xieyu, 26, killed his mother in 2015 by smashing her head with a dumbbell as she bent over to change her shoes, then tricked his relatives out of over 1.4 million yuan (US$216,000) and went on the run for three years before getting caught.
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