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Toronto man charged with murder after death of York student

21 April 2011 04:25 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. As a plane carrying Qian Liuâ€™s grieving parents touched down in Toronto, police announced the arrest of a man they believe murdered the 23-year-old York University student, APA reports quoting â€œThe Starâ€.
Liuâ€™s body was found in her basement apartment Saturday.
A graduate of Beijing City College, she came to Toronto last September to study English at York, part of a plan to further her university studies here.
Only an hour before she was attacked around 1 a.m. Saturday, the victim spoke via webcam to her mother, telling her how much she missed home.
On Wednesday, police charged 29-year-old Brian Dickson with first-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning.
Liuâ€™s body was found Friday at 11 a.m. on Saturday by two friends and her landlord at 27 Aldwinckle Heights after they were alerted by Meng Xianchao, the victimâ€™s boyfriend in China, who witnessed part of the struggle between the woman and an intruder by webcam the night before.
While homicide is leading the investigation into Liuâ€™s death, police are still waiting for toxicology test results to determine the cause of death.
Police released photos of Liuâ€™s missing IBM ThinkPad laptop, her missing external webcam device for live-streaming and her yet-to-be-recovered Nokia Smartphone.