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_ G O D _
Jan 29, 2012, 6:14:36 PM1/29/12
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Three members of an Afghan immigrant family in Canada have been
convicted of murdering four female relatives in a so-called
"honour" killing.
The bodies - three teenage girls and their father's first wife -
were found in a car submerged in a canal in the city of
Kingston, Ontario, in 2009.
The girls' father, brother and mother will serve at least 25
years in prison.
Prosecutors said the father was angered that his two eldest
daughters wanted boyfriends, in defiance of his values.
The court heard how Mohammad Shafia had become increasingly
angry and upset with his three teenage daughters for having
secret relationships with boys and wearing revealing clothes.
'Twisted notion of honour'
The prosecution relied heavily on wiretap recordings that
revealed the level of Shafia's anger and comments in which he
referred to his dead daughters as whores.
"The apparent reason behind these cold shameful murders was that
four (victims) offended your twisted notion of honour," the
judge, Justice Robert Maranger, told Shafia and his two co-
accused, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed.
The BBC's Lee Carter, in Toronto, says the three-month trial
riveted the country.
After the verdict was read out, Mohammad Shafia, speaking
through a translator, said, "We are not criminals, we are not
murderers, we didn't commit the murder and this is unjust.''
The bodies of sisters Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia, aged 19,
17 and 13, were found along with the body of their father's
first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, in the Rideau Canal in June 2009.
They had been on a visit to Niagara Falls and were returning
home to Montreal when they stopped for the night near Kingston.
The prosecution alleged Mohammed, Tooba and Hamed drowned their
four victims, placed their bodies in the car and then pushed it
into the canal with the family's other car.
The court heard the girls lived in an abusive home and received
frequent death threats, in part over the fact that the two
eldest daughters had boyfriends without their father's approval.
The jury was told the decision to murder the four women was
taken after 19-year-old Zainab took refuge in a shelter, defying
her male relatives.
The defence said their deaths were the result of a joyride gone
wrong after Zainab took the wheel
Ms Mohammad, 52, wanted a divorce and supported the girls' wish
to live according to Western norms.
The prosecution presented wiretap evidence, including one
conversation where Mohammad Shafia said his daughters "betrayed
us immensely."
In other recordings, he was heard calling them treacherous and
whores and calling on the devil to defecate on their graves.
The 10-member Shafia family left Afghanistan in 1992. They came
to Canada in 2007, having previously lived in Australia,
Pakistan and Dubai.
Shafia married Tooba Yahya because his first wife was unable to
have children.
She was living with Shafia and Yahya at the time of her murder.
The polygamous relationship, if revealed, could have resulted in
their deportation.
Three members of an Afghan immigrant family in Canada have been
convicted of murdering four female relatives in a so-called
"honour" killing.
The bodies - three teenage girls and their father's first wife -
were found in a car submerged in a canal in the city of
Kingston, Ontario, in 2009.
The girls' father, brother and mother will serve at least 25
years in prison.
Prosecutors said the father was angered that his two eldest
daughters wanted boyfriends, in defiance of his values.
The court heard how Mohammad Shafia had become increasingly
angry and upset with his three teenage daughters for having
secret relationships with boys and wearing revealing clothes.
'Twisted notion of honour'
The prosecution relied heavily on wiretap recordings that
revealed the level of Shafia's anger and comments in which he
referred to his dead daughters as whores.
"The apparent reason behind these cold shameful murders was that
four (victims) offended your twisted notion of honour," the
judge, Justice Robert Maranger, told Shafia and his two co-
accused, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed.
The BBC's Lee Carter, in Toronto, says the three-month trial
riveted the country.
After the verdict was read out, Mohammad Shafia, speaking
through a translator, said, "We are not criminals, we are not
murderers, we didn't commit the murder and this is unjust.''
The bodies of sisters Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia, aged 19,
17 and 13, were found along with the body of their father's
first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, in the Rideau Canal in June 2009.
They had been on a visit to Niagara Falls and were returning
home to Montreal when they stopped for the night near Kingston.
The prosecution alleged Mohammed, Tooba and Hamed drowned their
four victims, placed their bodies in the car and then pushed it
into the canal with the family's other car.
The court heard the girls lived in an abusive home and received
frequent death threats, in part over the fact that the two
eldest daughters had boyfriends without their father's approval.
The jury was told the decision to murder the four women was
taken after 19-year-old Zainab took refuge in a shelter, defying
her male relatives.
The defence said their deaths were the result of a joyride gone
wrong after Zainab took the wheel
Ms Mohammad, 52, wanted a divorce and supported the girls' wish
to live according to Western norms.
The prosecution presented wiretap evidence, including one
conversation where Mohammad Shafia said his daughters "betrayed
us immensely."
In other recordings, he was heard calling them treacherous and
whores and calling on the devil to defecate on their graves.
The 10-member Shafia family left Afghanistan in 1992. They came
to Canada in 2007, having previously lived in Australia,
Pakistan and Dubai.
Shafia married Tooba Yahya because his first wife was unable to
have children.
She was living with Shafia and Yahya at the time of her murder.
The polygamous relationship, if revealed, could have resulted in
their deportation.
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Jan 29, 2012, 7:25:51 PM1/29/12
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