Decapitation murderer sentenced

A former graduate student from China who prosecutors said decapitated a classmate in a US campus cafe because she rejected his romantic advances was sentenced to life in prison.

Virginia Judge Robert Turk sentenced Haiyang Zhu to life without parole, said Commonwealth’s Attorney Brad Finch.

Zhu pleaded guilty in December to first-degree murder in the death of fellow Chinese student Xin Yang. He admitted decapitating the 22-year-old Yang as the pair had coffee at a VirginiaTech campus eatery in January 2009.