Ex-girlfriend killer Zixi Wang’s appeal dismissed in Supreme Court

A woman who stabbed her ex-girlfriend more than 50 times sought leave to appeal her prison sentence, arguing it was “manifestly excessive”.

A woman who stabbed her ex-girlfriend more than 50 times before “calmly” fixing her hair in a mirror has had an appeal to reduce her prison sentence rejected by the Supreme Court.

Zixi ‘Jessy’ Wang was sentenced in October 2020 to a maximum 25 years and six months prison for killing 23-year-old Shuyu Zhou, with a 25 per cent reduction due to her guilty plea.

Wang, who was made eligible for parole on June 18, 2038, has served less than three years of her at least 19 year sentence.

CCTV footage shows Zixi ‘Jessy’ Wang in the elevator of the Zetlands apartment block.

She sought leave to appeal the sentence, arguing it was “manifestly excessive” and a miscarriage of justice had occurred.

The NSW Supreme Court found due to the seriousness of the case and the substantial sentence, Wang should be granted leave to argue her case, but on Wednesday, the appeal was dismissed.

The court was told Justice David Davies and Justice Anthony John Meagher each agreed with Justice Robert Allan Hulme’s decision to dismiss the appeal.

Zixi Wang leaves the Supreme Court in 2020. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Steven Saphore

Zixi Wang pleaded guilty to killing her ex-girlfriend.

Justice Hulme in his published reasons stated there was no error in the way Justice Robert Beech-Jones came to his judgment in October 2020.

Justice Beech-Jones said Wang committed a “deeply heinous act” outside her Zetland apartment block on June 17, 2019.

Ms Zhou went to Wang’s to get some of her belongings, before a heated argument began and she fell from the balcony, the agreed facts show.

Unsettling CCTV footage Wang going down the elevator to check on Zhou, who is still alive, before going back upstairs to get a knife.

She goes back to Zhou and stabs her viciously and “slashes her throat to make sure she was dead”, Justice Beech-Jones found.

At one point, he said she checked the appearance of her hair in the lift’s mirror.

“This murder displayed a pathological callousness for the suffering of someone she used to love,” he wrote in his published judgment.

The agreed facts state Wang “could not come to terms” with the couple’s break up in February 2019, becoming anxious, depressed and suffering weight loss.

Justice Beech-Jones grappled to understand the mindset of Wang and her lack of sympathy for her ex-girlfriend.

“How could the feelings of anger, bitterness and rejection that welled up in the offender from the breakdown of her relationship with Ms Zhou not dissipate … as she saw Ms Zhou helpless and writhing in agony after that fall onto the sidewalk?” he wrote in his judgment.