Kaohsiung, Jan. 29 (CNA) The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch on Thursday resentenced Liang Yu-chih (梁育誌) to life imprisonment for the 2020 rape and murder of a Malaysian university student, overturning a previous death sentence after a court-ordered retrial. Explaining its decision, the High Court said Liang's original intent was robbery and sexual assault, rather than murder. The court sentenced Liang to life imprisonment for rape resulting in death and added an eight-year prison term for robbery. In the original trial, the Ciaotou District Court sentenced Liang to death after finding him guilty of multiple offenses, including rape resulting in intentional homicide, robbery causing death, abandoning a corpse, and attempted rape in a separate, unrelated case involving another victim. The Taiwan High Prosecutors Office Kaohsiung Branch said that it will appeal Thursday's ruling.