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Ammar Wahid, the former boyfriend of the eldest Shafia daughter, Zainab, says he still struggles with whether he could have done something to rescue her from controlling and abusive family members who eventually killed her.
A mother convicted of killing four family members has filed an inmate notice of appeal.
Father’s notice of appeal argues the trial judge erred in admitting evidence from an honour killings expert.
The agency that first got wind of trouble in the Montreal home of the murdered Shafia sisters admits lack of communication between English and French agencies may have contributed to the failure of youth protection workers to act when the children sought help for a second time.
The guilty verdict in the Shafia murder trial is being met with mixed emotions in Canada’s Muslim community, an Ontario imam says.
A jury in Kingston, Ont., has reached a verdict in the case of three Montrealers accused of killing four family members.
A jury in Kingston, Ont., has begun deliberations in the case of three Montrealers accused of murdering four family members in June 2009.
Jurors can deliver a verdict of second-degree murder against some or all of the three Montrealers accused of killing four family members, the trial judge told jury members on Friday.
Some staff are being allowed back into a Kingston courthouse where the murder trial of three Montrealers accused of drowning four family members is set to resume after delays because of a security issue.
The lawyer representing Hamed Shafia, one of three Montrealers accused in the deaths of four family members, told jurors his client’s sisters were manipulative, made up stories of abuse and that any testimony about their claims was unreliable.