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Hamed Shafia

Another Step In Appealing Shafia Murder Case

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.09.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - The mother of the Shafia family has joined her husband and son in filing her intention to appeal her convictions on four counts of first-deg...

Shafia Father Takes First Step In Appealing Murder Verdict

CBC | Posted 04.04.2012 | Canada

A man convicted of killing his three daughters and first wife has filed his intention to appeal. It's Mohammed Shafia's first...

Shafias To Appeal Murder Convictions

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.01.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - Just days after being convicted with his parents in the first-degree murders of four family members, Hamed Shafia has filed notice to appeal...

Inside Story: How They Were Caught

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - When the call first came in on the morning of June 30, 2009, about a car in the locks at Ontario's Kingston Mills, police thought the...

Uniquely Canadian Snafu May Have Affected Case

Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - There is word that a uniquely Canadian bureaucratic snafu occurred as the Shafia girls were seeking help from authorities three years ago. ...

Shafia Family To Keep Their Fortune

CP | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.31.2012 | Canada

OTTAWA - In the weeks before he helped kill his sisters and his father's first wife, someone had used Hamed Shafia's laptop for an online search.That ...

What The Shafia Trial Means For Canada's Muslims

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - The Shafia murder trial has cast a shadow over Canada's Islamic community, further tarnishing an image that has not yet recovered from the e...

Shafia Daughters 'Committed Treason' Father Said

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - Two days before Mohammad Shafia was arrested for the murder of his three daughters and one of his two wives, he went on a vitriolic r...

A Timeline Of Murder

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury has found three members of an Afghanistan-born Montreal family guilty of four counts each of first-degree murder.Mohammad Shaf...

Honour Killing Verdict: Guilty

CP | Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada

UPDATE: Canada's Muslim Community have responded to the Shafia trial verdict. While many Muslim community leaders have decried the violence and deaths...

Shafia Trial: Just The Facts

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.28.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury in eastern Ontario starts its first full day of deliberations Saturday to decide the fate of three people accused of killing f...

What The Jury Didn't Hear

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury considering the case of three people accused of killing half of their family over honour absorbed mountains of evidence over a...

Shafia Accused Saw Deceased As 'Diseased Limb' Says Crown

CBC | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada

Three Montrealers accused of drowning four Shafia family members in Kingston, Ont., viewed the deceased as the "diseased limb on the fami...

Canadian Muslims Condemn Honour Killing

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.08.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - Violence against women has no place in a religion that proclaims equal rights for males and females, Canada's Muslim leaders say.Ongoing pub...

Shafia Dad Told Police Daughters Were Choked, Drugged

CBC | Posted 11.26.2011 | Canada

The father accused in the Kingston, Ont., canal deaths told police in an interrogation video shown during his trial Thursday that he wond...

Boyfriend Of Murdered Girl Testifies In Honour-Killing Trial

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.22.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - Three girls allegedly killed by their family over honour complained to police, child protection authorities and social workers just m...

An Unsanctioned Romance: Kingston Murder Trial

CBC | Posted 11.23.2011 | Canada

Kingston murder trial jurors heard details Monday about how the relationship between Zainab Shafia and her Pakistani boyfriend caused a g...

Accused Admits To Watching Car Sink With Sisters Inside

CBC | Posted 11.21.2011 | Canada

Hamed Shafia admitted to hitting the car containing his three sisters and father’s first wife and watching it sink into the water in Ki...

Son Accused In 'Honour Killing' Defends Mother

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.16.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A young man accused, along with his parents, of killing his three sisters told a police interrogator his mother had nothing to do wit...

Illness Delays Honour-Killing Trial

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.03.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - The trial of a Montreal family accused of killing three teenage sisters and a woman over family honour was adjourned indefinitely Thu...

Mother Cried During Interrogation, Drowning Trial Hears

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.02.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A Montreal woman accused of killing her three daughters slowly changed her tune during a six-hour interrogation, as the investigator ...

Family Staged Drowning Scene, Crown Alleges

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.28.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A man accused of killing his three daughters and one of his two wives showed no apparent emotion in his first interview with police, ...

Kingston Murder Trial: Yahya Family Member Researched Murder On Internet, Officer Testifies

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.27.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - Days before three teenage sisters from Montreal and their father's first wife were found dead in a car submerged in canal locks in ea...