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	Man sentenced for brutal murder of wife (AP)
	WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealander was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his wife's murder in a case that sparked an international manhunt after he abandoned his toddler daughter at a train station and fled to the United States. Nai Yin Xue will serve a minimum 12 years before becoming eligible for parole, Justice Hugh Williams said as he sentenced him in the High Court at Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city. Xue, who shouted "I'm innocent, I'm innocent!" and pumped his fist in the air when the jury verdict was announced last month, remained stony-faced and silent Friday as the sentence was pronounced. Justice Williams said he had taken Xue's history of violence toward his wife and his attempts to avoid detection after the murder into account when considering the sentence. In June an all-women jury found that Xue killed his 28-year-old wife, An An Liu, in September 2007, then took their three-year-old daughter to Australia. The girl, Qian Xun Xue, was later found crying at a train station in the southeastern city of Melbourne after her father abandoned her and fled to the United States. She was nicknamed "Pumpkin" because of the brand of clothing she was wearing. Eight days after Xue fled, police found Liu's naked body in the trunk of Xue's car with a necktie around her neck. The prosecution said she had been strangled to death. U.S. authorities launched a manhunt for Xue, who was captured nearly five months later by six Chinese Americans near Atlanta, Georgia, after the group recognized him from a newspaper. Xue, 55, a martial arts expert and owner-publisher of the Auckland-based Chinese Times newspaper, was extradited to New Zealand to face the murder charge. His daughter now lives with her grandmother in China. Taken from here