Zixi Wang: Shuyu Zhou, Zetland balcony murder, guilty plea entered
Neighbours heard ‘guttural screams’ before a woman forced her ex-lover off a sixth floor balcony to her death. In stunning scenes in court, the woman today admitted all in front of her ex-partner’s loved ones.
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A woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her ex-girlfriend by forcing her off a sixth floor balcony of an apartment block in Sydney’s inner south last year.
Zixi Wang was charged with the murder 23-year-old Shuyu Zhou in June 2019, who was found at the bottom of an 11-storey building on Rose Valley Way, Zetland.
Ms Zhou had suffered critical head injuries and was unable to be revived by paramedics.
Also known as Jessie, Wang was arrested a day later near the Sea Cliff Bridge close to Wollongong after a manhunt was launched with her having fled the crime scene in Ms Zhou’s Mercedes.
The 30-year-old appeared via video link at the NSW Supreme Court on Friday where she pleaded guilty to killing her ex-lover.
At the time neighbours told The Daily Telegraph of hearing “guttural screams” as two women argued loudly inside Wang’s apartment just before 9pm on June 17 last year.
Ms Zhou had gone to Wang’s $1.8 million three bedroom apartment to collect some belongings having recently split from Wang.
She was later discovered hanging over a corrugated iron fence having plunged some 30m below the unit. Officers said she died instantly.
Neighbour Anastasia Eden said she heard an intense argument break out between the two, with screams and a sound like a “child crying” coming through the walls.
“Next thing I know, there was more screaming and we later looked out of the window and saw a body hanging over the fence and blood on the pavement,” she said.
After the discovery of Ms Zhou’s body police broke down the door of Wang’s apartment but she was nowhere to be found.
She had stolen Ms Zhou’s Mercedes and was arrested climbing the rail of the Sea Cliff Bridge in Wollongong, following a tip-off from a 2GB caller, a day later.
Her plea was witnessed by three of Ms Zhou’s loved ones, who watched on via video as NSW’s court system retains strict social distancing protocols preventing many people from attending matters in person.
Wang will be sentenced on September 14.