May 2nd, 2015
A West Vancouver man who killed his wife's cousin before using power tools to chop him into 108 separate pieces will serve another two years and four months behind bars. The killing and dismemberment occurred as the result of an argument that began when Yuan appeared to belittle a device Zhao — an avid inventor and hunter — had fashioned out of hiking poles to serve as a kind of stabilizer for a rifle. In recounting the circumstances that saw Zhao strike Gang Yuan with a hammer, shoot him with a gun designed to kill vermin and then cut him up as he imagined he might a bear, the judge described the circumstances surrounding the crime as "unquestionably bizarre.”
