red states rule
10-24-2011, 02:22 AM
Here is another update on the Religion of Peace folks
The beat goes on...............
Crown prosecutors began framing the deaths of three teenage girls and their father's first wife as an "honour killing" in an Ontario courtroom on Thursday, more than two years after the victims were found submerged in the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ont.
It's expected that the honour killing narrative will be key to the prosecution's case against the accused family members: Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, and son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia.
All three face four counts each of first-degree murder, and all three have pleaded not guilty to those charges.
On June 30, 2009, 19-year-old Zainab Shafia, 17-year-old Sahar Shafia, 13-year-old Geeti Shafia and 50-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad were found dead inside a dark Nissan that had fallen into a canal lock.
While the family said that the deaths were the result of a joyride gone wrong, police had different suspicions, court heard.
Only days later, the girl's father was secretly recorded by police talking about the deaths and linking them to honour, prosecutors said.
Other conversations, secretly recorded by police, reveal that the girls' father felt betrayed because his daughters had boyfriends, Crown attorney Laurie Lacelle said.
"Even if they hoist me up onto the gallows, nothing is more dear to me than my honour," Shafia said, according to Lacelle.
"Let's leave our destiny to God, and may God never make me, you or your mother honourless ...There is nothing more valuable than our honour."
The recordings were made in the aftermath of the deaths when police began to suspect that family members may have been involved.
Officers bugged the family's vehicle, and in order to spur conversation, police then told the Shafias that they had found a camera near the scene of the deaths, and that it was being examined.
The Shafias, however, scoffed at the police, and said that they were bluffing
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111020/shafia-montreal-family-murder-trial-kingston-111020/20111020/?hub=TorontoNewHome
The beat goes on...............
Crown prosecutors began framing the deaths of three teenage girls and their father's first wife as an "honour killing" in an Ontario courtroom on Thursday, more than two years after the victims were found submerged in the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ont.
It's expected that the honour killing narrative will be key to the prosecution's case against the accused family members: Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, and son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia.
All three face four counts each of first-degree murder, and all three have pleaded not guilty to those charges.
On June 30, 2009, 19-year-old Zainab Shafia, 17-year-old Sahar Shafia, 13-year-old Geeti Shafia and 50-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad were found dead inside a dark Nissan that had fallen into a canal lock.
While the family said that the deaths were the result of a joyride gone wrong, police had different suspicions, court heard.
Only days later, the girl's father was secretly recorded by police talking about the deaths and linking them to honour, prosecutors said.
Other conversations, secretly recorded by police, reveal that the girls' father felt betrayed because his daughters had boyfriends, Crown attorney Laurie Lacelle said.
"Even if they hoist me up onto the gallows, nothing is more dear to me than my honour," Shafia said, according to Lacelle.
"Let's leave our destiny to God, and may God never make me, you or your mother honourless ...There is nothing more valuable than our honour."
The recordings were made in the aftermath of the deaths when police began to suspect that family members may have been involved.
Officers bugged the family's vehicle, and in order to spur conversation, police then told the Shafias that they had found a camera near the scene of the deaths, and that it was being examined.
The Shafias, however, scoffed at the police, and said that they were bluffing
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111020/shafia-montreal-family-murder-trial-kingston-111020/20111020/?hub=TorontoNewHome