A Montreal couple and their son were convicted Sunday of first-degree murder in the deaths of four family members in a case the judge called “despicable,” “heinous” and stemming from “a completely twisted concept of honour.”
Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed, who had pleaded not guilty, were each handed an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. They were accused of killing Hamed’s three sisters and his father’s childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.
The bodies of Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, along with Rona Mohammad Amir, 50, were found in the family’s Nissan, submerged in a lock on the Rideau Canal on June 30, 2009.
“It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous crime,” Justice Robert Maranger said.
“The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honour … that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.”
Life Sentence for Montreal Murders
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Yeah, can you believe Canada actually grew some cojones? This, from the same country that dared to prosecute Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine for printing an editorial that Muslims screamed was “hate speech”? You’d think the courts would have given the Shafias a pat on the head and told them not to be so murderous.