HONG KONG (AFP) – A 23-year-old man with dual US and Australian citizenship has been found guilty of manslaughter in the bizarre death of a Hong Kong taxi driver, according to court documents.

Hong Kong-born Kelsey Mudd was convicted by a jury late Wednesday following a trial in which he had pleaded not guilty to being responsible for the death of Wong Chi-ming in June 2009.

Mudd was accused of commandeering Wong's cab and then embarking on a wild driving spree before smashing into a metal fence in the city's financial district, killing the 58-year-old.

The case grabbed headlines after video footage of the incident emerged showing Mudd inside the taxi with blood splattered on his face.

Jurors also found Mudd -- a student at California State University who was in Hong Kong volunteering for a charity at the time of the accident -- guilty of taking a vehicle without authority, dangerous driving and drink driving.

He was expected to be sentenced later Thursday.

Mudd reportedly had more than three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.

His lawyer on Thursday described Mudd as "extremely distressed over the fact that he is partly responsible for the death of the taxi driver".

His defence had argued that the amount of alcohol Mudd consumed and a head injury he sustained prior to the fatal accident meant he was unlikely to have even remembered the incident, reports said.