Ibrahim Ali Trial

• B.C. judge rejects bid to bar father of murdered girl from killer’s proceedings

  A jury found Ibrahim Ali guilty of first-degree murder last December in the 2017 killing of a young teen girl in a Metro Vancouver park.

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  Feb 9
  
• Lawyer for father of murdered B.C. girl denies client brought gun to Ali verdict

  Brock Martland, who represents the father, says it's an "unfounded proposition" that has been repeated several times by Ibrahim Ali's lawyers.

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  Feb 2
  
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• Police secretly got DNA from Kurds in B.C. probe of teen girl’s murder

  Ibrahim Ali was convicted in December of first-degree murder of a teenage girl in Burnaby whose name is protected by a publication ban.

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  Jan 15
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• Father of teen victim in Ibrahim Ali trial arrested and released: Vancouver police

  This follows the news that police are investigating allegations that someone brought a firearm into a Vancouver courtroom on Friday, as a jury convicted Ali of first-degree murder.

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  Dec 12, 2023
• ‘Fit but fragile’: Threats, dead witness, delays mark Ibrahim Ali’s murder trial

  Ibrahim Ali's lawyers reportedly couldn't get him to understand a key point — that he was still on trial for the first-degree murder of a young teen girl.

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  Dec 8, 2023
• Ibrahim Ali trial: Sex assault expert compares dead girl’s injuries to childbirth

  The expert told the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of Ibrahim Ali that the girl's injury would have been very painful and required at least one stitch.

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  Sep 21, 2023
• Ibrahim Ali: Slain B.C. teen had ‘blunt force’ injuries, expert says

  A sexual assault expert testifying at the trial of a man accused of killing a B.C. teen said she believes the girl's injuries were "highly indicative of blunt force trauma."

  Sep 18, 2023
• Ibrahim Ali: Accused’s lawyer says DNA found in slain teen might not be killer’s

  A defence lawyer at the Ibrahim Ali murder trial in B.C. has raised the possibility that the person whose DNA was found inside the victim may not be the one who killed the girl.

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  Sep 15, 2023
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• Ibrahim Ali: Murder trial hears DNA match as exact as identical twins

  An expert testifying at Ibrahim Ali's murder trial said she has almost never seen a DNA match as close as the one between the suspect and samples found on his alleged victim.

  Sep 14, 2023
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• Ibrahim Ali’s DNA matches sample from teen girl’s body, expert says

  Crown attorney Isobel Keeley said that the court would hear evidence showing the murder was random, but DNA results would prove Ali sexually assaulted the girl.

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  Sep 13, 2023