Salvaged cellphones offer evidence in Shafia case

Release Date ‎Nov 21, 2011‎ in CBC-ca

 
   

'Let her die': 'Honour killing' trial mother's reply to daughter's suicide attempt

National Post (blog) - 25 Nov, 2011
KINGSTON, Ont. â€" If the Kingston Police had handled the investigation of the deaths of three girls and an adult woman whose bodies were discovered on their turf as Montreal school officials and child-protection workers handled the complaints of ...

Murder over old traditions hard for us to understand

London Free Press - 25 Nov, 2011
Canada has a well-earned reputation for opening its doors to people around the world. Immigration always has been a cornerstone of this nation. With the exception of the indigenous peoples of this country, ...

Teen told social worker of abuse, honour killing trial hears

Vancouver Sun - 25 Nov, 2011
Sahar Shafia, 17, pictured in a photo retrieved from her cellphone, which was found inside the sunken Nissan Sentra in which the three Shafia girls' bodies were found on June 30, 2009. ...

Cars, not grief, dominated interview with police

Toronto Star - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
Mohammad Shafia allegedly told his daughter Zainab â€" who did not possess a driver's licence â€" that if she ever tried going for a joyride on the highway, she might very well “kill herself.” By Rosie DiManno Columnist KINGSTONâ€"Oh that Zainab Shafia. ...

'Suicidal' Shafia daughter described by school official

CBC.ca - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
A teenage girl allegedly killed by her family along with her two sisters confided in school and child protection authorities that she was being pressured to wear a hijab and was being shunned at home, so she tried to kill herself, a court heard ...

Teen attempted suicide because of home life, jury hears in 'honour killings' trial

Globe and Mail - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
More than a year before she and her two sisters drowned in a mysterious incident that is now the focus of a murder trial, a teenage student told her Montreal high school vice-principal that she had attempted suicide because her situation at home was ...

'She was obviously extremely scared,' social worker says of meeting with ...

National Post - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
“I don't want you to meet my parents,” Sahar Shafia told a youth worker, court has heard. By Rob Tripp KINGSTON, Ont. â€" In the weeks before they were found dead in a submerged car, two teenaged Montreal sisters told teachers and a youth protection ...

Shafia sisters reported death threats to police, trial told

Montreal Gazette - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
Zainab Shafia, 19, told police a few weeks before her death that she had called 911 at her mother's insistence and did not want to press charges against Ammar Wahid, a former boyfriend. ...

Shafia kids anxious to leave home, court hears

Toronto Sun - ‎Nov 23, 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. (QMI Agency Files) The vice principal of the Montreal ...

A history of violence at the Shafia home

Macleans.ca - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
Michael Friscolanti is covering the honour killing trial for Maclean's, filing regular reports from the Kingston, Ont. courtroom to Macleans.ca and weekly dispatches for the ...

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

National Post (blog) - ‎Nov 22, 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 - ‎Nov 22, 2011‎
KINGSTON, Ont. â€" 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 - ‎Nov 22, 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 KINGSTONâ€"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 - ‎Nov 22, 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 ...

Court hears Zainab Shafia's 911 call

Toronto Sun - ‎Nov 22, 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 had sad, stunted love story

Edmonton Journal - ‎Nov 22, 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 - ‎Nov 22, 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. â€" 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 ...

Submerged-Car-Bodies

CFJC TV Kamloops - 25 Nov, 2011
Teenaged sisters who became victims of an alleged family "honour-killing" in Montreal wanted to get out of their home so desperately they asked everyone they could for help, including teachers and social workers. The jury was told the sister told tales ...

Dramatic testimony at Shafia family trial

CJAD - ‎Nov 22, 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 - ‎Nov 22, 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, ...

 

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