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27-06-2014, 11:20 AM
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Canadian court rules Chinese-born man killed, dismembered and scattered girlfriend's body
Jiang Chunqi to serve automatic life sentence for 2012 murder of Liu Guanghua
PUBLISHED : Friday, 27 June, 2014, 10:20am
UPDATED : Friday, 27 June, 2014, 10:56am
Jiang Chunqi blamed his 66-year-old mother. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A Canadian citizen originally from China was convicted on Thursday of second-degree murder for killing and dismembering his ex-girlfriend, then scattering body parts around the city and Niagara Falls.
A jury found Jiang Chunqi guilty in the killing of Liu Guanghua, 41, in August 2012. Both were born in China and naturalised as Canadian citizens.
Prosecutors said Jiang killed Liu after she rejected him for another man. Photo: SCMP Pictures
The conviction comes with an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 to 25 years.
Liu, a single mother of three, met Jiang while working at a factory before starting her own spa business. The couple had an on-again-off-again relationship for four years before breaking up.
Prosecutors said Jiang killed Liu after she rejected him for another man.
The defence said it was Jiang’s 66-year-old mother who fatally stabbed and dismembered Liu in a fit of rage over allegedly stolen jewellery, while her son simply helped cover up the crime.
Jiang admitted to bringing up parts of Liu’s body to be washed in the kitchen sink and packing them in plastic bags, but insisted it was his mother who cut up the body.
Prosecutors suggested Jiang’s ailing mother would not have been physically able to overpower a fit woman and walk away “without so much as a scratch.”
Authorities said Liu’s head and body showed more than 40 “chop-like” wounds caused by a sharp-edged object, possibly a hatchet or cleaver, and that Liu’s blood was found in Jiang’s basement and in the trunk of his car.
Prosecutor Brian McGuire argued the brutality of the assault proves Liu was never meant to survive.
Toronto police submitted this photo of the couple as evidence at the trial. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?184841-PRC-Chops-Up-ATB-in-Canada-amp-Ask-Mother-to-Cover-Up&goto=newpost).
Canadian court rules Chinese-born man killed, dismembered and scattered girlfriend's body
Jiang Chunqi to serve automatic life sentence for 2012 murder of Liu Guanghua
PUBLISHED : Friday, 27 June, 2014, 10:20am
UPDATED : Friday, 27 June, 2014, 10:56am
Jiang Chunqi blamed his 66-year-old mother. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A Canadian citizen originally from China was convicted on Thursday of second-degree murder for killing and dismembering his ex-girlfriend, then scattering body parts around the city and Niagara Falls.
A jury found Jiang Chunqi guilty in the killing of Liu Guanghua, 41, in August 2012. Both were born in China and naturalised as Canadian citizens.
Prosecutors said Jiang killed Liu after she rejected him for another man. Photo: SCMP Pictures
The conviction comes with an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 to 25 years.
Liu, a single mother of three, met Jiang while working at a factory before starting her own spa business. The couple had an on-again-off-again relationship for four years before breaking up.
Prosecutors said Jiang killed Liu after she rejected him for another man.
The defence said it was Jiang’s 66-year-old mother who fatally stabbed and dismembered Liu in a fit of rage over allegedly stolen jewellery, while her son simply helped cover up the crime.
Jiang admitted to bringing up parts of Liu’s body to be washed in the kitchen sink and packing them in plastic bags, but insisted it was his mother who cut up the body.
Prosecutors suggested Jiang’s ailing mother would not have been physically able to overpower a fit woman and walk away “without so much as a scratch.”
Authorities said Liu’s head and body showed more than 40 “chop-like” wounds caused by a sharp-edged object, possibly a hatchet or cleaver, and that Liu’s blood was found in Jiang’s basement and in the trunk of his car.
Prosecutor Brian McGuire argued the brutality of the assault proves Liu was never meant to survive.
Toronto police submitted this photo of the couple as evidence at the trial. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?184841-PRC-Chops-Up-ATB-in-Canada-amp-Ask-Mother-to-Cover-Up&goto=newpost).