Student could avoid death sentence

A PhD student who stabbed his supervisor to death because he believed the man had an affair with his girlfriend is considering whether to appeal his death sentence, his lawyer said.

"Fu Chengli is considering if he will appeal to the Beijing higher court," Ding Haiyang, who was defending Fu, told METRO yesterday after meeting his client.

Fu, a 23-year-old senior student of China University of Political Science and Law, stabbed teacher Cheng Chunming in the neck on Oct 28, 2008.