Liang Yu-chih (center, in helmet)

TAIWAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2020 RAPE, MURDER OF MALAYSIAN STUDENT

March 28, 2022:

A 30-year-old man was convicted on 18 March 2022 of raping and killing a Malaysian university student in 2020, and he was sentenced to death by the Taiwan Ciaotou District Court.
In its ruling, the court said Liang Yu-chih had committed a "brutal" premeditated crime that had caused public panic and "seriously hurting Taiwan's image."
Liang was convicted of sexual assault, homicide and dumping the body of the 24-year-old Malaysian woman, surnamed Chung, according to the court verdict.
The court also found Liang guilty on a charge of attempted sexual assault of another woman one month before Chung's murder.
Combining the penalties in the two cases, the district court sentenced Liang to death and permanently stripped him of his right to run for office or work as a civil servant. The case can still be appealed.
In the verdict, the court said Liang abducted Chung on the street on 28 October 2020, as she was walking back from the campus of Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan to her place.
Liang, who was 28 at the time, sexually assaulted the student, strangled her with a rope and dumped her body in a mountainous area of the neighboring Kaohsiung City, according to the verdict.
Liang showed no remorse when he was arrested in Kaohsiung the day after he murdered Chung, and instead he tried to mislead the police, according to the court.