Life sentence for UK barman who beat Chinese girlfriend to death
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Photo of Jordan Matthews and Bi Xixi. [Photo: South Wales Police/Wales News Service]

A British barman who was found guilty of beating his Chinese girlfriend to death has been sentenced to life in prison.

Jordan Matthews, 24, was convicted last week after a trial lasting two weeks at Cardiff Crown Court. The court stipulated that he should serve at least 18 years of the sentence.

During the trial, the court was told that the victim, a 24-year-old Chinese post-graduate student, Bi Xixi, suffered a 'vicious, sustained and prolonged attack' in August 2016, during which she incurred 41 injuries, including a broken jaw, broken ribs, and extensive bruising.

Matthews admitted manslaughter but denied murder, telling the police that he had 'been horrible' to Bi, after he saw a message from another man called Ben on a dating app on Bi's mobile phone.

A subsequent investigation found his girlfriend didn't have such an app on her phone, and there was no one called Ben among her contacts.

Handing down the sentence, Judge Davies, said that Bi had provided Matthews with a home, clothing, and had even bought a car for him. He said the assault was the "tragic culmination" of a number of months of physical and verbal abuse.

"You lied and lied again in order to attempt to exculpate yourself from the overwhelming evidence which was that, during the early hours of August 19 2016 you relentlessly and remorselessly inflicted physical injury upon a defenceless young woman," Judge Davies said.

According to the victim impact statement read by Bi's brother, the student's family said the girl was expected to go on to run their family's multimillion-pound company and had a bright future with the "whole world in front of her".

Born in east China's Nanjing city, Bi Xixi moved to Oxford at the age of 15 to further her education.

She was studying for a master's degree in international business in Cardiff when she met Matthews - who had a black belt in karate - and started showering him with gifts.

But after their relationship began, Matthews allegedly began beating Bi and forcing her to miss lectures.

Bi died in hospital after a cardiac arrest, due to the severity of the attack carried out by Matthews, Aug. 18, 2016.

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