‘Deeply sorry:’ Calgary man who strangled wife, buried body in home gets 7 years
CALGARY — A man who strangled his wife and concealed her body after enduring what he described as years of domestic abuse has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Allan Shyback will get credit for time already served, so he faces just under three more years behind bars.
Justice Rosemary Nation found Shyback guilty last spring of manslaughter and indignity to a body in the 2012 death of Lisa Mitchell in the couple’s Calgary home.
Shyback, 40, testified that he killed Mitchell while he was defending himself as she attacked him with a knife. He said he panicked, put her body inside a plastic bin and cemented it into a basement wall.