A girl who was murdered by a family friend at her family’s Chinese takeaway never found out she had passed all of her exams with As, according to her devastated parents.
Wenjing Lin, was choked to death by killer Chun Xu at the Blue Sky takeaway before he tried to murder the girl’s stepfather after luring him to the basement of the building.
Xu, 32, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of murdering the 16-year-old girl and attempted murder of her stepfather at court on Tuesday.
Yongquan Jiang Yang, the girl’s stepfather was attacked by Xu with two knives in what was described as a “repeated and vicious attack”.
After the trial, Wenjing’s mother Meifang Xu spoke of her grief at the loss of her daughter, and how she proud she was of her achievements, according to Wales Online.
Speaking outside Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court with the support of her husband Mr Yang, Ms Xu said: “My beautiful daughter is gone and I can never forgive you.
“I have lost my beloved daughter, my everything. Everything of me.
“She cared for my husband and I very much. She has been helping us to communicate with all the English speakers.
“(Wenjing’s) school friends miss her so much, I know they are suffering from the pain and loss of their best friend. They will never recover from it.
“Before that horrible day she was a very, very happy girl. She loved spending time with her friends and she enjoyed school.
“We’ve been to the school to speak to them. My daughter has passed all her GCSE’s with As but she will never know her results that she has worked so hard for. I’m so proud of her achievements in the school.
"She loved school so much and her teachers called her the model student.
“I’m still not able to comprehend why the perpetrator would do this to her. Our lives have been turned upside down. I was crying every day, watching videos every day and trying to feel close to her and listen to her voice.
"I cannot imagine what my life is like without her. She was my only child.
“The perpetrator has broken our family. I had to begin counselling to help me but it will never take away the pain the perpetrator has caused us.”
Ms Xu also described how her husband Mr Yang had suffered from the violent attack in Ynyswen, Treherbert, on March 5.
She said: “My husband was a very strong and fit young man. Before this vicious brutal attack he never felt scared of anything but now he even struggles to work and he also has nightmares of when Wenjing was lying on the floor by the counter in the reception area.
“Due to the severe mental and physical injuries from the savage, brutal attack by the perpetrator, the treatment he must receive from the hospital will go on for a long time.”
Ms Xu also thanked the police, CPS, school, the community and friends for their support.
She added: “We are so relieved justice has been done and the perpetrator should be punished for my husband and Wenjing. He should be punished for what he did.
“I hope there won’t be any innocent victims like Wenjing.”
During the trial at jurors heard that he said he "did not mean to hurt the little girl. I wanted revenge on her mother".
After the verdict, the judge said Xu could expect "a sentence of life imprisonment", due to take place on Friday.
