Parents \u2018stunned\u2019 after Zhao\u2019s killer has sentence reduced<\/p>\n
CTV \u6e29\u54e5\u534eCTV Vancouver<\/p>\n
Published Monday, June 30, 2014 8:59AM PDT
\nLast Updated Monday, June 30, 2014 7:38PM PDT<\/p>\n
Amanda Zhao’s family says a Chinese court\u2019s decision to reduce her killer\u2019s sentence is corrupt.
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The family of a 21-year-old Chinese exchange student found dead in B.C. more than a decade ago says a decision to reduce her killer\u2019s verdict from first-degree murder to manslaughter has left them \u201cabsolutely stunned.\u201d
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Amanda Zhao vanished in October 2002. Her body, strangled and stuffed inside a suitcase, was discovered by hikers 11 days later near Stave Lake in Mission.
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Zhao\u2019s then-boyfriend Ang Li fled to China before charges were laid against him in B.C. He was later charged, but could not be extradited to face trial here because of jurisdictional issues.
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\nA Chinese court found Li guilty of her first-degree murder in 2012, and he was sentenced to life behind bars.
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Surprise decision
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On Monday, a panel of judges changed the verdict in Zhao\u2019s death to manslaughter, effectively reducing the sentence to just seven years.
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\u201cThey should give him the death penalty,\u201d Zhao\u2019s father said outside of court. \u201cA life for a life.\u201d
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With an appeal and time served taken into account, Li could be free in as few as two years.
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At a news conference in Vancouver Monday, NDP MLA Jenny Kwan read a statement from Zhao’s family.
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Kwan, who has kept in touch with the parents since Zhao’s death, said they are devastated.
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\u201cThe ruling\u2026is unacceptable to us,\u201d the translated statement said. \u201cThe ruling changes our opinion about the fairness of the law. The ruling abundantly represents that the law can be bought with power or money in China.\u201d
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Zhao\u2019s parents said they were concerned about the fairness of the appeal process, noting Li\u2019s father is a high-ranking Chinese military official.
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New details come to light
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Kwan said the Beijing High Court\u2019s decision to reduce Li\u2019s sentence was atrributed to a lack of evidence proving first-degree murder.
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\u201cIt cited the fact that Ang Li and Amanda Zhao were a couple, and that they were having a pillow fight and that there was some force used, and as a result, Amanda Zhao had died,\u201d she said.
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According to court documents, Chinese prosecutors had argued any adult should know that suffocating a person for a length of time would result in that person dying.
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\u201cAs well, it cited the fact that Ang Li had attempted to get rid of the body after Amanda Zhao was murdered, and that ought to indicate intent in terms of murder,\u201d Kwan said.
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With time served, Li is set to be released on June 27, 2016.
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With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Maria Weisgarber
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