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Chinese Man who killed Canadian model gets two-year delay on death sentence

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VANCOUVER, B.C. - A man who admitted to murdering a 22-year-old model from Salt Spring Island, B.C., has been given the death penalty by a Chinese court.
Diana O'Brien was found stabbed to death last July on the staircase of the apartment building where she was staying.
Chen Jun pleaded guilty in November to killing the young woman as he tried to rob her.
Media reports from China say that in a written ruling released Friday, Shanghai's Intermediary Court did not order Chen to be immediately executed. Instead, the court offered him a two-year probationary reprieve.
Chen has that time to prove that his sentence should be commuted to life.
O'Brien was in Shanghai on a contract with China's JH Model Agency.
At his trial, Chen said he was trying to rob O'Brien in her apartment by threatening her with a knife, but she ran out the door. He said he then chased her down to a stairwell and stabbed her.
Chen was arrested four days later in his nearby home province of Anhui. Shanghai police said they had tracked him down using footage from surveillance cameras near O'Brien's apartment building.