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Kingston, Ontario (CNN) -- A Canadian jury Sunday convicted three members of a family of Afghan immigrants of the "honor" murders of four female relatives whose bodies were found in an Ontario canal.

Mohammed Shafia, 58; his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42; and their son, Hamed, 21, were found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of Shafia's three teenage daughters and his first wife in his polygamous marriage. Sunday's verdicts followed a three-month trial, in which jurors heard wiretaps of Shafia referring to his daughters as "*advertiser censored*" and ranting about their behavior.

All three were sentenced to life in prison immediately after their convictions, with no chance of parole for 25 years.


more at the link.......

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/29/world/americas/canada-honor-murder/index.html


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:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

Hope this sends a strong message.
 
Wondergirl said:
There has been some excellent reporting on this sad case.

Mr. Appleby's article here, weaves the whole story, and provides many details not previously known.

You must read this article, if you followed this case.
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Yes, Wondergirl, there are some interesting details in this story. For instance:

Mr. Shafia already owned two cars – a Pontiac minivan and the expensive Lexus SUV that would hurriedly push the Nissan into the lock when the murder plot began to unravel.

But neither was suitable for what the killers had in mind. So one day before the road trip that took the Shafia family to Niagara Falls, Mohammad Shafia bought the Sentra in Montreal for $5,000.

It was small, easy to operate and disposable.

But it had one key feature the murderers overlooked: Front-wheel drive, meaning the front wheels had to have traction for the car to move. So once it got part-way into the space above the lock, and became hung up on a concrete step at the edge, the front wheels spun uselessly.
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Ostensibly, according to the defence, the four victims had been on a late-night joyride. But none of them was wearing a seatbelt. The ignition was in the “off” position. And the two front seats were fully reclined, making it difficult for even a tall person to have manoeuvred the steering wheel.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-arrogance-and-mistakes-led-to-shafias-murder-conviction/article2319036/page1/

Thanks goodness they bought a front wheel drive car!
 
All three convicted of four charges each of first degree murder. There will be appeals but the mandatory sentence is 25 years without parole and after that deportation. The old goat will be 83, so may not make it.
Some Canadians complaining of the cost and wishing we had the death penalty. It will be about 1 cent per year for each adult Canadian. If they set up a donation center I'd send more than my share!
 
This is interesting, makes you wonder how well immigration checks people out!


The immigration lawyer was never told about the polygamous marriage between Mohammad, Tooba and Rona.

“I only learned about this afterward — after Mrs. Rona’s death,” Sabine Venturelli testified in November.

If federal officials had known of the true relationship, Venturelli told the court, “immigration would have withdrawn the residents status to all members of the family.”
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http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3459038
 
StellarsJay said:
Some Canadians complaining of the cost and wishing we had the death penalty.
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those canadians need to be properly educated ... as it costs much more to put someone to death than to keep them in prison for life ;)
 
immigration might not have had access to proper and thorough records from afghanistan though (war, invasions, bombings and all)... if no records are available and people don't tell the truth... ???

the shafia's committed the crime, not our government/immigration services. i would hope blame wouldn't be deflected where it doesn't belong imo.
 
matou said:
The family wants a retrial:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...killing-of-four-family-members-seek-new-trial
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Apparently Shafia is quite persuasive imo.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...ed-prisoners-into-attending-prayers-1.3061580

May 5 2015

"The Montreal man serving a life sentence for killing his wife and three teenage daughters intimidated other prisoners to the point that one asked to be put in isolation, a Senate committee has heard.

Psychologist Robert Groves, who worked in Kingston Penitentiary, testified Monday before the national security and defence committee hearing on security threats facing Canada. He said he met with one particular non-Muslim inmate who went to great lengths to avoid Shafia.

"It turned out that he felt so intimidated by Shafia and some of his lieutenants, that he chose to give up his relative freedom of movement on the range in the general population for a much more restricted life on a social isolation range," Groves said.

"He could no longer come to see me. I had to go to his cell on the isolation range. He advised me that confinement was worth it to avoid the hassle of dealing with 'the M.....s'"

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"Groves said he believes Shafia was "self-appointed" in his role in the prison, and said about 25 men gathered for prayers.

"They were not [all] Muslims but believed that they dare not refuse to attend Friday prayers," he told the hearing.

"This form of intimidation is what one finds routinely with zealot extremists."

Groves's testimony focused on the potential for radicalization of the prison population."
 
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/was-cultural-prejudice-a-factor-in-the-shafia-trial/

"Was ‘cultural prejudice’ a factor in the Shafia trial?

The Shafia-family ‘honour killers’ say they were victims of stereotyping. Michael Friscolanti reports on the latest in the case.
October 14, 2015"

"Nearly four years after they were sentenced to life in prison for a mass “honour killing” that shocked the country, the notorious Shafia family is asking for a new trial—in part, they claim, because the jury’s verdict may have been “tainted by cultural prejudice” and “pre-existing stereotypes of violent and primitive Muslims.”

In a lengthy factum filed at Ontario’s Court of Appeal, the Shafias take specific aim at the “overwhelmingly prejudicial” testimony of a key Crown witness: Shahrzad Mojab, a University of Toronto professor who researches honour-based violence. A leading expert in her field, Mojab told the original Kingston jury that in some Middle Eastern cultures, a family’s reputation is measured by the obedience and chastity of its women—and that even the mere perception of inappropriate conduct can be a death sentence. “The shedding of blood is the way of purifying the name of the family in the community,” she told a packed courtroom on Dec. 5, 2011. “It is an expected act. It is expected that the honour of the family be restored and controlled.”

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2011-2012/the-house-of-shafia
 
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