{"id":818604,"date":"2026-07-23T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:36:14","slug":"taiwanese-woman-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison-for-attempted-murder-of-australian-exchange-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818604\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese woman sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempted murder of Australian exchange student"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Taiwanese woman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for the attempted murder of Brisbane exchange student Alex Shorey, Taiwan state media has reported.<\/p>\n

The woman, identified as Yang Jinping, befriended the then-23-year-old Australian while he was studying a Chinese literature program in Taiwan in early 2023, with the two beginning an on-again, off-again relationship.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors alleged Yang began to poison Mr Shorey with the rat poison superwarfarin after he expressed a desire to cut his time in Taiwan short.<\/p>\n

She continued to mix the rat poison into food and drink for Mr Shorey, including while he was in hospital.<\/p>\n

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Mr Shorey was treated in a Taipei hospital before being medically repatriated. (Supplied: Shorey Family)<\/p>\n

Mr Shorey was admitted to hospital multiple times in 2023 before being medically evacuated to Australia.<\/p>\n

During the case, Mr Shorey’s mother told the court she had found an empty bottle of rat poison in her son’s rental apartment in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Yang was charged with Mr Shorey’s attempted murder in late 2024.<\/p>\n

Taiwanese media has reported Jinping was convicted of attempted murder in the Taipei District Court yesterday.<\/p>\n

She has been sentenced to 11 years and two months in prison, local media reported.<\/p>\n

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University of Queensland student Mr Shorey had been in Taipei on an exchange at Tamkang University. (ABC News: Mitch Woolnough)<\/p>\n

Mr Shorey’s family crowd-sourced more than $200,000 to have him medically evacuated back to Australia.<\/p>\n

His father, Stephen Shorey, previously told the ABC his son had recovered from the poisoning.<\/a><\/p>\n

He said at the time their family was grateful to everyone who helped bring Alex home in 2023, as the retrieval “saved his life”.<\/p>\n

“We were blessed,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Taiwanese woman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for the attempted murder of Brisbane exchange…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[394259,38294,64,63,15599,44,53298,394260,23073,11069,394258],"class_list":["post-818604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alex-shorey","tag-attempted-murder","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-exchange-student","tag-news","tag-rat-poison","tag-superwarfarin","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan","tag-yang-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}