CALGARY — 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. In May, a judge found Allan Shyback, 40, guilty of manslaughter in the 2012 death of his wife Lisa Mitchell in the couple’s Calgary home. Justice Rosemary Nation ruled Shyback was not guilty of the original second-degree murder charge. The judge said the force Shyback used to fend off Mitchell, who was 31, was only reasonable until the couple fell to the ground. Once Mitchell was overpowered and the knife was out of her hand, however, Shyback used “force that was more than necessary,” the judge ruled.

Source: National Post September 20, 2017 14:26 UTC