February 02, 2021 - 1:00 PM A Vernon man found guilty of murdering a Japanese exchange student in 2016 has won an appeal to have a new trial. In a B.C. Court of Appeal Decision published Feb. 2, two of three sitting judges ruled that errors were made during William Victor Schneider s original trial and that these mistakes warranted a new trial. In October 2018, Schneider was sentenced to life in prison without parole eligibility for 14 years, after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in connection with the death of 30-year-old Japanese exchange student, Natsumi Kogawa. Schneider was arrested in Polson Park the day Kogawa’s body was found at an abandoned mansion in Vancouver in September 2016.