A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison in the death of a woman at a home on the University of British Columbia Endowment Lands in 2024. Homicide investigators say Yang (Christopher) Liang was charged with second-degree murder in the March 2024 death of his wife, 26-year-old Men Cheung, at a home on Shortcut Road. Liang pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on Sept. 14. Police say Thursday’s sentence also comes with a lifetime firearms ban and a DNA order. Liang had already spent 11 months in jail prior to his sentencing for what Justice Carla Forth called a “brutal” killing, in which Cheung was strangled and beaten to death. Sgt. Freda Fong with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in a statement that the case was a “tragic reminder” of the possible “devastating consequences” of intimate partner violence. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 13, 2026.
