MONTREAL – A Montreal family convicted of the murder of four relatives are seeking a new trial.
Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed Shafia have filed an appeal of their first-degree murder convictions.
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They were convicted in January 2012 for the murder of the three Shafia sisters and Mohammad Shafia’s first wife in 2009.
It was a case that brought the issue of honour killings to the forefront.
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They argue the trial judge was wrong to admit evidence from an expert on honour killings.
The trio continue to deny they killed anyone.
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The bodies of the three teenage sisters and Shafia’s first wife were found in a car at the bottom of a canal in Kingston, Ontario.
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