Hongkonger gets 7 years after murder conviction reduced to manslaughter

A former university professor whose conviction for murdering his wife was overturned has been sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for the lesser offence of manslaughter, after a Hong Kong court accepted that his depression was so serious that it reduced his criminal culpability. Cheung Kie-chung pleaded guilty at the High Court on Tuesday after prosecutors accepted that his mental impairment had substantially diminished his responsibility for the killing that shocked academia in...