Man pleads guilty to model's murder

SHANGHAI: A man pleaded guilty here yesterday to the murder of Canadian model Diana O'Brien.

Chen Jun, 18, said he murdered the 23-year-old in her apartment on the night of July 6, before robbing her of about 11,000 yuan ($1,600) worth of items, including a laptop computer, a camera and a cell phone, the Shanghai No 1 intermediate people's court heard.

Chen, who moved to Shanghai from Anhui province in May, said in court that he did not know O'Brien, but chose her because security at her apartment building on Zhaohua Road in the Changning district of Shanghai, was lax.