Postgrad who killed his roommate given death

A postgraduate student in Hunan province was sentenced to death on Monday for poisoning his roommates' food and causing the death of one, the Xiangtan Intermediate People's Court said.

Zhou Liren, a student at Xiangtan University, was also deprived of his political rights for life. The court determined that Zhou and the victims surnamed Zhang and Zhou (another roommate with the same family name), were all postgraduate students admitted in 2022.

Zhou Liren moved into the same dormitory of the two victims in June 2023, and frequent disputes erupted over minor issues between them, leading to growing resentment.