Calgary man guilty of manslaughter after killing wife, burying body in basement
CALGARY — A judge has rejected a Calgary man’s argument that he acted in self-defence after years of domestic abuse when he strangled his wife and entombed her body in their basement.
Justice Rosemary Nation found Allan Shyback guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter rather than second-degree murder.
The judge says not all of Shyback’s actions were made in panic, but his intentions in killing Lisa Mitchell in Calgary almost five years ago weren’t entirely clear.
“He is left responsible for a culpable homicide,” Nation said in her verdict Thursday.