By Ryan Lipman PUBLISHED: 19:01 EST, 18 February 2014 | UPDATED: 21:19 EST, 18 February 2014 A Chinese university student has been condemned to death after he was found guilty of fatally poisoning his roommate with drinking water. Lin Senhao, 27, claimed that the death of Huang Yang, also 27, was an accident after an innocent April Fool's Day prank which had ended in tragedy. However, a judge sitting at Shanghai Number Two Intermediate People's Court ruled that the act was malicious and Lin had intentionally murdered his roommate out of spite. Trial: April Fool killer Lin Senhao, pictured centre, gets the death sentence for poisoning drinking water that killed his university roommate
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Chinese student dies 16 days after drinking water poisoned by fellow student on April Fool's day
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Murderer Lin Senhao claims poisoning the drinking water was a prank
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A Chinese court rejects the defence and sentences Lin to death
Support: @placeholder's father, pictured centre, as he walks out of the court where his son had been sentenced to death