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A student is facing the death sentence after hanging two prostitutes, having their bodies shipped home and then having sex with their corpses.

And that wasn't the end of his sick fantasies, he then dismembered the bodies and buried them in his garden.

The 23-year-old, known as Lee, was studying design at Jilin University in Changchun, China, at the time.

He reportedly told police he was failing classes so he needed something to take his mind off it.

Lee also admitted having necrophiliac fantasies before the incidents.

According to iFeng.com, and cited in the Daily Mail, Lee hired a 20-year-old prostitute called Cai over the internet in March this year.

He then reportedly hanged her before shipping her back to his home in Changping, where he had sex with her corpse.

Later that same month he did the same again with another prostitute.

He dismembered both and buried them in his garden.

The Second Intermediate People's Court found him guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced him to death, the Daily Mail reports.

It also ordered him to pay 80,000 yuan (£8,000) in compensation to the victims’ families.