Man who killed, dismembered ex-girlfriend seeks to appeal conviction

TORONTO – A Toronto man who savagely killed his ex-girlfriend, hacked her body to pieces and scattered her remains is seeking to challenge his second-degree murder conviction.

Chun Qi Jiang has filed a notice of appeal, alleging the judge overseeing the case “made several errors in law in rulings throughout the trial.”

Jiang was convicted in June in the fatal stabbing and dismemberment of 41-year-old Guang Hua Liu, whose body parts surfaced in Toronto-area parks and waterways in the summer of 2012.

In his notice, Jiang says Judge Giselle Miller erred in “prohibiting the defence from challenging the ‘identity’ of who killed Guang Hua Liu in the house,” and in allowing evidence that was unlawfully obtained by police.

He also claims Miller should have declared a mistrial “upon finding that the Crown failed to disclose key evidence.”

Jiang is also seeking to contest his sentence, which he describes as “manifestly unfit.”