An Adelaide man who was accused of killing his in 2011 before fleeing to China, has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.
It was alleged that law student Wei Li, who was 18 at the time, beat his 41-year-old mother, Emma Tien, with a metal rod and strangled her, before wrapping her body in bedsheets and leaving it in the lounge of the family's Burnside home.
He testified to the court that he had acted in self-defence when his mother ran at him, yelling and screaming after becoming angry because he was not practising piano.
Li, who is now 22, claimed his mother had been physically abusive towards him for years.
The South Australia Supreme Court jury returned the verdict against Wei Li after deliberating for more than seven hours.
