A B.C. woman who tried to kill her long-time social media enemy in a Vancouver courtroom four years ago will have to stay in prison, the province’s court of appeal has ruled.

After a lengthy trial, Surrey’s Qin Shen was found guilty in 2023 of the attempted murder of Jing Lu two years earlier and sentenced to 12 years in prison. On appeal seeking a sentence reduction of six years, her lawyer argued the judge failed to consider how Shen’s existing mental illness fed that hate, making her not criminally responsible.

Justice Gail Dickson dismissed the appeal in a recently published decision.

Shen and the victim, Jing Lu, had met in 2005 through an online forum to connect Chinese immigrants in Canada. Over the ensuing years, the two “became entangled in an intense online feud in which they

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