Man convicted in webcam murder files appeal notice

A man who killed a York University student from China in an attack partly witnessed via webcam says he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder.

Brian Dickson, who was convicted earlier this month in the death of Qian Liu, has now filed a notice of appeal.

The jury who heard Dickson’s case didn’t know about online postings about incest and underage sex, his collection of Asian
pornography and complaints of previous attacks on women, but it still took just four hours of deliberations to convict him.

Liu had been chatting via webcam with her ex-boyfriend in China on April 15, 2011 when he saw Dickson force his way into Liu’s room and attack her.