DiManno: Daughter's romance was doomed from the start, Kingston murder trial told

Toronto Star - 22 Nov, 2011
A cellphone picture of Zainab Shafia. Zainab, as several witnesses have testified, was the primary object of her father's rage. By Rosie DiManno Columnist “I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you.” And just like that it was over, Zainab Shafia's ...

Jury hears details of oldest Shafia sister's romance

CBC.ca - 22 Nov, 2011
Kingston murder trial jurors hear details about how the relationship between Zainab Shafia and her Pakistani boyfriend caused a great deal of stress within her family. Mohammad Shafia has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the ...

Christie Blatchford: Zainab Shafia's doomed 'amazing love story'

National Post - 22 Nov, 2011
Zainab Shafia lived under the watchful eye of her younger brother, Hamed, a court has heard. KINGSTON, Ont. " By almost any standards, but particularly those of modern teenagers and young adults, Zainab Shafia's relationship with the poor young fellow ...

Daughter imprisoned in her home, Shafia trial told

Montreal Gazette - 22 Nov, 2011
Hamed Shafia of Montreal is one of three people accused of the murders in 2009 of three teenage girls and a woman in Kingston, Ont. The victims were found in a car submerged in the Rideau ...

Romeo-and-Juliet marriage lasted one day, 'honour killings' trial told

Globe and Mail - 22 Nov, 2011
In poignant testimony that went to the heart of the prosecution case against three people accused of committing multiple “honour killings,” the former boyfriend of one of the victims told of a clandestine, Romeo-and-Juliet romance and a marriage in ...

Valentine prompted friendship rules, Shafia trial hears

Toronto Sun - 22 Nov, 2011
Mohammad Shafia, front, and his son Hamed arrive at the court in Kingston on November 9, 2011. (MICHAEL LEAQMI Agency) A young man told court Monday how he sent Zainab Shafia a Valentine's Day card at high school in 2008 -- and got the "rules of ...

Suitor of eldest daughter in 'honour killing' trial told to treat her like a ...

National Post - 22 Nov, 2011
“Let me explain the rules of my friendship, first, be aware of my bro, then if (you) sometimes wanna talk, come in the library and if my brother is around, act like complete strangers,” Zainab Shafia, wrote, in an email sent Feb. ...

Valentine prompted friendship rules, Shafia trial hears

London Free Press - 22 Nov, 2011
Mohammad Shafia, front, and his son Hamed arrive at the court in Kingston on November 9, 2011. (MICHAEL LEA/QMI Agency) KINGSTON, Ont. - A young man told court Monday how he sent Zainab Shafia a Valentine's Day card at ...

Salvaged cellphones offer evidence in Shafia case

CBC.ca - 22 Nov, 2011
An expert testifying at the Shafia trial Monday said text messages and love notes were recovered from three cellphones salvaged from the submerged car containing the four victims. An expert testifying at the Shafia trial Monday said text messages and ...

Witness called victim 'angel'

The Kingston Whig-Standard - 22 Nov, 2011
A young man read aloud in a Kingston courtroom Monday a seemingly prescient e-mail, written in text language by Zainab Shafia, exactly four weeks before she was found dead in the Rideau Canal in 2009: "... even one day if sum thing ...

Shafia trial looks at cellphone evidence

CJAD - 22 Nov, 2011
At the Shafia murder trial in Kingston, Ont. Monday, the jury got a peek into the cellphone lives of the two oldest Shafia sisters, 19-year-old Zainab and 17-year-old Sahar. The jury was shown photos of the two from cellphones retrieved from the bottom ...

Indecent photos of Shafia sisters found on cellphones

Oye! Times - 22 Nov, 2011
Indecent photos of the dead teenaged sisters of Shafia family were found on their mobiles. Stored in the mobile phone's memory card were also the pictures of their boyfriends, a murder trial was told Monday. The revealing snaps of Zainab Shafia, 19, ...

Suspect: Watched car with 4 victims sink

UPI.com - 22 Nov, 2011
KINGSTON, Ontario, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A man accused in the deaths of four family members said he watched their car sink into a Canadian canal but did not call 911 or try to save them. Jurors heard a recording of Hamed Shafia, who is charged with ...

Religious and Cultural Appropriation in the Newspaper and the Courtroom

Patheos (blog) - 22 Nov, 2011
On the morning of June 30, 2009 a quadruple-murder case rocked the city of Kingston in Ontario, Canada. Four women were found dead, submerged in the Rideau Canal, in their Nissan Sentra. At first it seemed as though boaters had come across a teenage ...

'I love u much': Shafia murder trial hears emails from drowned daughter

Montreal Gazette - 22 Nov, 2011
teenage Montreal girl who was allegedly murdered, along with two sisters and her stepmother, by her brother and parents, warned a school suitor that her brother could not know about their ...

Jury Hears Details Of Oldest Shafia Sister's Romance

Huffington Post Canada - 22 Nov, 2011
Kingston murder trial jurors hear details about how the relationship between Zainab Shafia and her Pakistani boyfriend caused a great deal of stress within her family. Nineteen-year-old Zainab's body was found in a submerged car at the bottom of the ...

Blatchford: Honour killing trial hears from boyfriend of drowned teen

Windsor Star - 22 Nov, 2011
Mohammad Shafia (left), his son Hamed (back right) and Tooba Mohammad Yahya (front right) are charged with four deaths in what authoritis believe was an "honour kiling. ...

 

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