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GUILTY: Shafia family found guilty in honour-killings trial
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
Updated: 01/29/2012 09:08P
Guilty: jury convicts all 3 in Shafia murders
"Your honourable justice, this is not just," she said, also through an interpreter. "I am not a murderer, and I am a mother — a mother!" Hamed said in English: "Sir, I did not drown my sisters anywhere." During the three-month trial Hamed was the only
Updated: 01/29/2012 08:51P
A tradition of shame
The jury in the Shafia trial returned a verdict on Sunday that most people presumed as soon as the details of the drowning deaths of three sisters and their father's first wife were made public on June 30, 2009, in Kingston.
Updated: 01/29/2012 08:43P
A tradition of shame
The jury in the Shafia trial returned a verdict on Sunday that most people presumed as soon as the details of the drowning deaths of three sisters and their father's first wife were made public on June 30, 2009, in Kingston.
Updated: 01/29/2012 08:43P
Shafia family guilty in 'honourless' murders
The jury of seven women and five men took 15 hours over three days to reach their unanimous decision — each of the three accused guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. In the end, the jurors agreed with the Crown and Kingston Police
Updated: 01/29/2012 08:20P
Key players in Shafia trial react to verdict
This verdict sends a very clear message about our Canadian values and the core principles in a free and democratic society that all Canadians enjoy and even visitors to Canada enjoy." — Crown prosecutor Gerard Larrhuis “"[Mohammad Shafia] wasn't
Updated: 01/29/2012 07:56P
Shafia family members guilty of first-degree murder
On Sunday afternoon, after 15 hours of deliberation, the jury of five men and seven women returned with their verdict. Justice — 31 months removed from mass homicide at the Kingston Mills Locks.Justice and vindication for Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia
Updated: 01/29/2012 07:55P
Muslim community, neighbours react to Shafia verdict
MONTREAL — Members of the Muslim community and neighbours in St. Leonard expressed relief and anger after the verdict in the Shafia trial came down Sunday. Sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Shafia's other wife Rona Amir Mohammad,
Updated: 01/29/2012 07:49P
Guilty Verdict in Shafia Trial
A jury has found three members of an Afghanistan-born Montreal family guilty of killing three daughters and a co-wife in a so-called honour killing. Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, have been found guilty of four
Updated: 01/29/2012 07:44P
Jury finds Afghan family guilty in honor killings
After the verdict was read, the three defendants again declared their innocence in the killings of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.
Updated: 01/29/2012 06:27P
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