Dong Hui/Shanghai Daily news

A young man charged with the murder of a 22-year-old Canadian model confessed in court yesterday that he stabbed her to death during a late-night robbery in her Shanghai apartment building, Shanghai Daily reported.

The defendant Chen Jun, who has just turned 18, told Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court that he went inside a residential complex on Zhaohua Road, Changning District in early July with the intention of committing a robbery, as the building gate was unlocked.