A Chinese court has sentenced US citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death for the premeditated murder of a 21-year-old ex-girlfriend of his, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

In its verdict, the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang Province found that after the June 2019 controversy over the couple's breakup, the defendant arranged to meet the victim at a bus stop in Ningbo, where he killed her with a jackknife.

The court ruled that the defendant's deliberate revenge killing was motivated by heinous motives, strong intent and cruel means, and the circumstances of the crime were especially bad, the consequences were especially grave and should be punished in accordance with the law, CCTV reported.