Annie Li
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He is not a Canadian citizen. He might have been able to escape to China before he was arrested. Remember that Pakistani guy who escaped to Pakistan (guess there is an advantage to being a dual citizen, you have two passports).Right, so he even gets a free airplane ticket back to China out of all this
He deserves a 7 year sentence just for the way he
treated the body of the victim.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2017/02/01/victim-treated-like-trash
Toronto Sun
February 01, 2017
NEWMARKET - With his hands shoved in his pockets, standing in the prisoner’s box, the man who killed Annie (Yingchun) Li and stuffed her body in a suitcase shrugged as he casually apologized to the judge after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
“I’m sorry about the death,” said Jerry (Jiarui) Tang, 22, of Toronto, just before he was whisked off to prison.
He was sentenced to seven years, but will get a seven-month deduction for the time he already served since his arrest last September and will be deported once released.
Li, 36, who owned a home in Markham, worked at a nail salon and occasionally as a sex-trade worker and had been out with Tang twice previously for dinner dates followed by sex for $800. She was last seen June 12, 2016 and texted her parents that she wouldn’t be home that night.
Tang, a loner who suffered from depression, came to Canada in 2013 on a student visa and studied English at York University and received permanent residence here.
He has admitted he killed Li, hid her body for three days in his Toronto condo, then stuffed her naked in a suitcase and left her body near walking trails at Earl Bales park where it sat in the open, undetected for seven months.
“He treated Annie Li like trash,” said Crown Attorney Rob Scott.
In a victim impact statement, Li’s brother, Jet Hu, told of the horror he and his family faced. For months, he said, they waited, wondered and prayed.
“Every night my father would go out on his bike to look for her,” he said. “Then the shock that at last she was found, murdered, stuffed in a suitcase and thrown away … the horror is always in my mind.”
It was Hu who helped crack the mystery of his sister’s disappearance by doing his own investigating. Accessing a computer program called “find my phone” he discovered her phone was discarded at Fairview mall. He also found photographs uploaded on her computer of food dishes taken that he traced to Yu Garden Dim Sum restaurant. He contacted the restaurant and viewed security video for the night she disappeared, which showed Li and Tang entering the restaurant. Months later, Tang was arrested and admitted to the killing but refused to tell police where the body was until after his manslaughter plea.
In a police statement, Tang claimed after sex he woke to find Li straddling him and slapping him, claiming she was pregnant and demanding money. He claims he unintentionally held her down with his elbow on her neck. When asked how he felt about killing her, he told police, “I think I feel something, don’t know. Not sure if I feel anything.”
Forensic pathologists could not confirm the cause of death from her skeletal remains.
Tang still faces unrelated charges by the Toronto guns and gangs unit and has a court date in February.
treated the body of the victim.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2017/02/01/victim-treated-like-trash
Toronto Sun
February 01, 2017
NEWMARKET - With his hands shoved in his pockets, standing in the prisoner’s box, the man who killed Annie (Yingchun) Li and stuffed her body in a suitcase shrugged as he casually apologized to the judge after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
“I’m sorry about the death,” said Jerry (Jiarui) Tang, 22, of Toronto, just before he was whisked off to prison.
He was sentenced to seven years, but will get a seven-month deduction for the time he already served since his arrest last September and will be deported once released.
Li, 36, who owned a home in Markham, worked at a nail salon and occasionally as a sex-trade worker and had been out with Tang twice previously for dinner dates followed by sex for $800. She was last seen June 12, 2016 and texted her parents that she wouldn’t be home that night.
Tang, a loner who suffered from depression, came to Canada in 2013 on a student visa and studied English at York University and received permanent residence here.
He has admitted he killed Li, hid her body for three days in his Toronto condo, then stuffed her naked in a suitcase and left her body near walking trails at Earl Bales park where it sat in the open, undetected for seven months.
“He treated Annie Li like trash,” said Crown Attorney Rob Scott.
In a victim impact statement, Li’s brother, Jet Hu, told of the horror he and his family faced. For months, he said, they waited, wondered and prayed.
“Every night my father would go out on his bike to look for her,” he said. “Then the shock that at last she was found, murdered, stuffed in a suitcase and thrown away … the horror is always in my mind.”
It was Hu who helped crack the mystery of his sister’s disappearance by doing his own investigating. Accessing a computer program called “find my phone” he discovered her phone was discarded at Fairview mall. He also found photographs uploaded on her computer of food dishes taken that he traced to Yu Garden Dim Sum restaurant. He contacted the restaurant and viewed security video for the night she disappeared, which showed Li and Tang entering the restaurant. Months later, Tang was arrested and admitted to the killing but refused to tell police where the body was until after his manslaughter plea.
In a police statement, Tang claimed after sex he woke to find Li straddling him and slapping him, claiming she was pregnant and demanding money. He claims he unintentionally held her down with his elbow on her neck. When asked how he felt about killing her, he told police, “I think I feel something, don’t know. Not sure if I feel anything.”
Forensic pathologists could not confirm the cause of death from her skeletal remains.
Tang still faces unrelated charges by the Toronto guns and gangs unit and has a court date in February.
He's not going to have an easy time when he gets back to China. He's got a good chance of being tried again for murder and face execution, especially as he killed another [overseas] chinese . In any case, he's going to be followed through social media over there and harassed. His life is over.
How is 7 years too little?
Manslaughter usually is 10 years or less, and he gets deported at the end anyways
You just answered your own question, 10 years would have been more appropriate. I'm guessing the fact she was a sex worker had something to do with it
And the fact they had been fighting at time he claims he accidentally killed her
In most cases he would only qualify for the 4 years
I think he got 7 because of how he disposed of the body afterwards
But most of these posters want to claim murder and put him away for life
Which is insanity
The issue I would take with this thinking is that the claim about his fight is just his side of it and cant be verified. The method of death was suffocating her (which i believe is difficult to do accidentally with your hands) and not something like she fell and hit her head while they were fighting. Lastly he also hid the body, then hid in a suit case and placed it in a park which implies he had plenty of time to think about his actions and didnt come forward and makes me question his argument about accidentally killing her.
Agreed.....threatening to ruin his life by exposing his illicit sex life is a pretty nasty thing to do. I think the sentence is not light at all.
With a population of that size you honestly think that he will be worried about by the Chinese authorities.
Kudos to Annie's brother for doing his own investigation. If it wasn't for him the case might never have been solved.
I dont want him away for life, because I suspect its a crime of passion.
Having said that though, 10 years in the bucket seems much more appropriate to me.
I have a feeling the judge took her lifestyle into account
You're really assuming things here. You've repeated this assumption three times in this thread. You're degrading this woman by saying because she was a sex worker that the punishment for the perpetrator should be less. Killing is killing regardless of the victim's occupation.
There actually is no typical sentencing for manslaughter. Historically it's based around the circumstances.
Getting back on topic, seemingly the only evidence the Crown had available was the words of the perpetrator. He claims that the victim had tried blackmailing him -- but no one other than the perpetrator knows what really happened. The goal of the Crown is to seek conviction. 7 years in prison is better than the asshole seeing no time in prison since the police didn't have a body. If the scenario were different and the police had found the body then the Crown possibly could've built a stronger case and sought a longer sentence, but again, putting the asshole in prison is better than nothing since he admitted that he had no emotion or guilt over his actions.
I am under the impression that this is indeed
the rationale underlying the lenient sentence
on the part of the judge.
Then if the judge is discriminating her because of her occupation,he doesn't deserve to be a judge.
Looks like you have reading comprehension fail. I said the exact opposite:
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?589995-Annie-Li&p=5752116&viewfull=1#post5752116
Seriously? You mean the police/detective units could not figure this out?
Unfucking believable! What an embarrassment this must be for a big city so-called seasoned police force.
Perhaps they should look at hiring Hu to lead their investigations.
