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| Canada: Shafia family found guilty in honour-killings trial |
| 2012-01-30 |
| KINGSTON, Ont. — After Canada’s first mass-honour-killings trial, three members of a Montreal family have all been found guilty of first-degree murder in the drowning deaths of four other family members — including three teenage sisters. A jury on Sunday handed down its guilty verdicts for Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, as well as their 21-year-old son, Hamed. They had been charged with murder after the bodies of three Shafia sisters — Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and 13-year-old Geeti — were discovered in a submerged vehicle in a canal near Kingston, in June 2009. Also in the vehicle was Rona Amir Mohammad, the 52-year-old first wife of Shafia, whom he married in his native Afghanistan before the polygamous family moved to Canada in 2007 and settled in Montreal. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #2 YESSSSSSSSS!!!!! The jury didn't take very long to hit this one out of the snowdrift. Just wait until they get settled into the Federal Prison system with its 24 hour-a-day country music and its wonderful native gang population. Somedays it IS worth chewing through the leather straps. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2012-01-30 17:00 |
| #1 "you wouldn't understand - it's a cultural thing" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-01-30 08:00 |