{"id":118715,"date":"2017-09-20T05:06:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=118715"},"modified":"2017-09-20T05:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:06:56","slug":"sentencing-arguments-for-calgary-man-who-killed-wife-buried-body-in-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/20\/sentencing-arguments-for-calgary-man-who-killed-wife-buried-body-in-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing arguments for Calgary man who killed wife, buried body in basement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CALGARY\u00a0— Sentencing arguments are to be heard today for a man who said he acted in self-defence when he strangled his wife and entombed her body in their basement.<\/p>\n

In May, a judge found Allan Shyback, 40, guilty of manslaughter in the 2012 death of his wife Lisa Mitchell in the couple’s\u00a0Calgary\u00a0home.<\/p>\n

Justice Rosemary Nation ruled Shyback was not guilty of the original second-degree murder charge. She said she was \u201cleft with a reasonable doubt on the intention of the accused.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shyback testified he had been the victim of domestic abuse for nearly a decade and Mitchell had attacked him with a knife the day she was killed.<\/p>\n

The judge said the force Shyback used to fend off Mitchell, who was 31, was only reasonable until the couple fell to the ground.<\/p>\n

Once Mitchell was overpowered and the knife was out of her hand, however, Shyback used \u201cforce that was more than necessary,\u201d the judge ruled.<\/p>\n

Shyback said he panicked after he discovered Mitchell was dead and was afraid to call the police.<\/p>\n

Mitchell was last seen in\u00a0Calgary\u00a0in October 2012. An undercover police operation started in 2013 and ended with Shyback’s confession and arrest in Winnipeg a year later.<\/p>\n

Shyback was also found guilty of causing an indignity to a body for putting Mitchell’s remains in a Rubbermaid container and cementing it into a wall in the basement of their home.<\/p>\n

The maximum sentence for manslaughter is life in prison. The maximum for indignity to a human body is five years.<\/p>\n

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