Dickson guilty of 1st-degree murder in York student’s death

Posted April 7, 2014 6:51 pm.

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A jury has found Brian Dickson, 32, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of York University student Qian Liu, 23, after only four hours of deliberation on Monday afternoon.

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