Salvaged cellphones offer evidence in Shafia case

Release Date ‎Nov 21, 2011‎ in CBC-ca

 
   

Shafia trial hears 911 call about threats and beatings

Montreal Gazette - 23 Nov, 2011
Rona Shafia, left and Sahar Shafia, in a photo recovered from Sahar's cellphone, taken June 26, 2009 while the Shafia family was in Niagara Falls. Released exhibit from trial of Mohammad ...

Geeti Shafia asked for “immediate placement” with a foster family, when she ...

National Post (blog) - 23 Nov, 2011
In April of 2009, the Shafia family of Montreal was pretty much disintegrating and not doing it quietly, either. Like youngsters who hide in plain view, the messy fracturing of the Afghan-Canadian household was occurring in the open. ...

Canal victim didn't feel safe in home, court told

CANOE - 23 Nov, 2011
KINGSTON, Ont. " The Shafia family went into full crisis mode on April 17, 2009, after a daughter went missing, court heard Tuesday. Late in the afternoon, Hamed Shafia made two phone calls to the Montreal police 911 ...

Shafia kids asked for help but were abandoned

Toronto Star - 23 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 KINGSTON"Out of the mouths of children: Get me outta here. Cops listened. ...

Trial hears how Zanaib Shafia's flight to women's shelter infuriated father

CTV.ca - 23 Nov, 2011
Rona (left) and Sahar Shafia are shown in this photo released by the courts on Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO Sahar Shafia is shown in this photo released by the courts on Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO A car is removed from ...

Shelter workers, police give dramatic testimony about Shafia family

Globe and Mail - 23 Nov, 2011
Six weeks before she and three relatives were allegedly killed by her father, mother and brother, a Montreal teenager fled her home for a women's shelter where she described a pattern of domestic abuse, a murder trial was told Tuesday. ...

Court hears Zainab Shafia's 911 call

Toronto Sun - 23 Nov, 2011
Clockwise from top left: 53-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad, Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13. Defence lawyers in the Shafia murder trial painted a different picture of the relationship between Zainab Shafia and the young man who ...

Zainab Shafia, boyfriend ad sad, stunted love story

Edmonton Journal - 23 Nov, 2011
By almost any standards, but particularly those of modern teenagers and young adults, Zainab Shafia's relationship with the poor young fellow now in the witness stand was as stunted and utterly ...

'Be aware of my bro,' Shafia daughter warned

Montreal Gazette - 23 Nov, 2011
A 19-year-old Montreal woman allegedly murdered, along with two sisters and her step-mother, by her father, mother and brother, was yanked from school and virtually imprisoned in her home after she was caught ...

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

Toronto Star - ‎Nov 21, 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 - ‎Nov 21, 2011‎
Kingston murder trial jurors heard details Monday 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 ...

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

National Post - ‎Nov 21, 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 ...

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

Globe and Mail - ‎Nov 21, 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 - ‎Nov 21, 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 - ‎Nov 21, 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. ...

Salvaged cellphones offer evidence in Shafia case

CBC.ca - ‎Nov 21, 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 ...

Dramatic testimony at Shafia family trial

CJAD - 23 Nov, 2011
The trial continues in Kingston, in the Shafia murder trial with testimony from Quebec witnesses, specifically people working at a women's shelter, where the eldest daughter sought refuge. A councillor from the Passages women's shelter testified that ...

Defence attacks claim of cultural divide

The Kingston Whig-Standard - 23 Nov, 2011
Defence lawyers in the Kingston Mills murder trial painted a different picture of the relationship between Zainab Shafia and the young man who was married to her for a day in 2009, just weeks before she died. ...

Witness called victim 'angel'

The Kingston Whig-Standard - ‎Nov 21, 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 - ‎Nov 21, 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 - ‎Nov 21, 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 - ‎Nov 21, 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) - ‎Nov 21, 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 ...

'He's gonna, like, kidnap me': Zainab Shafia said in 911 call before her death

National Post - 23 Nov, 2011
KINGSTON, Ont. " Two teenage sisters who were found dead in a submerged car in June 2009, told Montreal police officers 10 weeks earlier that they had been slapped and punched by their father and brother and faced death threats, ...

Shafia sisters complained about violence at home months before their deaths

Hamilton Spectator - 23 Nov, 2011
Zainab Shafia and her boyfriend Ammar Wahid are shown in a court exhibit photo released at the Shafia trial in Kingston Tuesday. An unusual witness testifies that Hamed Shafia, 20, gave a new version of what happened on the night four... KINGSTON, ONT. ...

Court hears Zainab Shafia's 911 call

London Free Press - 23 Nov, 2011
Zainab Shafia (pictured) and her sisters Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, were found dead inside a submerged car in the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ont., in July 2010. ...

Life was improving for woman allegedly killed by family

CTV.ca - 23 Nov, 2011
KINGSTON, Ont. " Life was starting to improve in the Shafia household in the days before three sisters and one of two wives were allegedly killed by their family, with the eldest daughter being granted minor freedoms, court heard Tuesday. ...

Home life was improving before woman allegedly killed by family, court hears

Toronto Star - 23 Nov, 2011
KINGSTON, ONT."Court is hearing that in the days before three sisters were allegedly killed by their family, one of the girls said life in the home was improving. A man who dated and briefly married Zainab Shafia, 19, is telling court that she often ...

Kingston canal deaths trial hears 911 tape

CBC.ca - 23 Nov, 2011
Defence lawyers presented a 911 call to a Kingston, Ont., court that Zainab Shafia made to police before her death, in which she says her boyfriend was angry they had broken up and that he might try to kidnap her. The jury heard the call Tuesday during ...

Shafia girl suitor takes witness stand at honour-killing trial

Canada.com - ‎Nov 21, 2011‎
KINGSTON, Ont. - A 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 ...

 

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