Hari Pal guilty of second-degree murder in 2014 stabbings of wife and her friend

A Calgary man has been found guilty in the May 2014 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.

Hari Pal was found guilty Friday of two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his estranged wife, Sanjula Devi, and Fahmida Velji-Visram.

Pal had also been charged with the attempted murder of his landlord Shalni Gill, who tried to intervene in the attack. He was found guilty of the lesser charge of aggravated assault.

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The Crown had argued Pal was on a stabbing frenzy.

The defence had argued there was a lack of evidence of conflict or events leading up to the death of Velji-Visram to merit a second-degree murder charge and asked the judge to instead consider the lesser charge of manslaughter.

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Earlier this week, court proceedings came to a stop when Pal was being sworn in to testify in his own defence. The accused stuck a finger in his ear and told court his deceased wife was speaking to him and that he couldn’t hear anything else.

After hearing testimony from a forensic psychologist, the Justice presiding over the case deemed Pal fit to stand trial. Pal declined to testify.

He will be sentenced June 27.

With files from Nancy Hixt