Supreme Court upholds life sentence for murder
Staff writer, with CNA
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a life sentence handed down to an Israeli-American for the 2018 murder and dismemberment of a Canadian citizen on the banks of the Sindian River (新店溪).
The court dismissed Oren Shlomo Mayer’s appeal and concluded that there was nothing objectionable in the High Court’s ruling in January, which upheld the New Taipei City District Court’s conviction of Mayer and three others last year in connection with the murder.
According to the verdict, Mayer, who has dual citizenship in Israel and the US, killed Canadian Sanjay Ryan Ramgahan because he suspected that Ramgahan had informed police about an illicit drug trade in which he and the three accomplices were involved.
Supreme Court upholds life sentence for murderer of Canadian
05/13/2021 10:02 PM
Oren Shlomo Mayer. CNA file photo
Taipei, May 13 (CNA) Taiwan s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the life sentence handed down to Israeli-American dual citizen Oren Shlomo Mayer for murdering and dismembering a Canadian national in Taiwan in 2018 with the help of three accomplices.
The Supreme Court dismissed Mayer s appeal and concluded that it did not find anything objectionable with the high court s ruling.
According to the verdict, Mayer killed Canadian Sanjay Ryan Ramgahan because he suspected Ramgahan had informed police about the illicit drugs trade in which he and the three accomplices were involved, after he himself was arrested for possessing marijuana.
2021/05/12 20:10 Oren Shlomo Mayer (second from left) during an earlier police transfer Oren Shlomo Mayer (second from left) during an earlier police transfer (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) An Israeli-American citizen will have to spend his life in prison for the gruesome murder of a Canadian resident over a drug-related dispute following a decision by the Supreme Court Wednesday (May 12) to reject his final appeal. In the high-profile case, Oren Shlomo Mayer lured Canadian Sanjay Ryan Ramgahan to a riverside park in the New Taipei City district of Yonghe before killing him, dismembering him, and throwing his remains into the water on an evening in Aug. 2018. Mayer, who officially worked as a tattoo artist, suspected that the Canadian had been working as a police informant to shed light on his drug-dealing activities.