DiManno: Cellphone footprints reveal compelling detail in Shafia case

Release Date 26 Nov, 2011 in Toronto Star

	Before honour, reconnaissance Macleans.ca - 26 Nov, 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 ...
Christie Blatchford: How to interview a murder suspect National Post (blog) - 26 Nov, 2011 Mohammad Shafia walks from the holding cell at the Frontenac courthouse in Kingston, Ont. on Oct. 20, 2011. KINGSTON, Ont. �" Some day in the future, instructors at Canadian police colleges may use the video that Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert ...
Cop befriended Shafias to help break case, court hears CANOE - 26 Nov, 2011 KINGSTON, Ont. �" The day after three of his daughters and his first wife were found dead in a car in the Rideau Canal, Mohammad Shafia was looking to police for answers. “What I want is to know if my family member has ...
Shafia girl told teachers of violence at home, murder trial told Montreal Gazette - 26 Nov, 2011 KINGSTON, Ont. - Three teachers at a Montreal high school saw troubling signs that Sahar Shafia, one of three teenaged sisters allegedly murdered by her family, was a victim of physical and ...
Blatchford: Shafia girl `afraid of her father' Montreal Gazette - 26 Nov, 2011 KINGSTON, Ont. - There are two stories from Shafia-land, the murder trial of one side of an Afghan-Canadian family accused of the mass ``honour killing'' of the other side, which really tell the ...
DiManno: Cellphone footprints reveal compelling detail in Shafia case Toronto Star - 26 Nov, 2011 Inside the entrails of the cellphone used by Sahar Shafia, there are data footprints of 4565 text messages. A typical teenager, the 17-year-old was all the time talking and tapping on the mobile that was formally registered to her brother. ...
'Honour killing' trial: Detective befriended family, played dumb during ... National Post - 26 Nov, 2011 Mohammad Shafia, Hamed Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya leave the courtroom at the Frontenac courthouse in Kingston, Ont., on Oct. 20. The three are charged with first degree murder of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as that of ...
A dozen officials didn't know how to help desperate “honour killing” Shafia ... National Post - 26 Nov, 2011 KINGSTON, Ont. �" There are two stories from Shafia-land, the murder trial of one side of an Afghan-Canadian family accused of the mass “honour killing” of the other side, which really tell the tale. The first happened in the spring of 2008, ...
	Kingston police fed suspects false information during probe, 'honour killings ... Globe and Mail - 26 Nov, 2011 During the runup to the arrest of three Afghan-Canadians alleged to have committed multiple so-called honour killings 2 1/2 years ago, the suspects may have thought the friendly Kingston police were in their corner and really believed that the deaths ...
	Postscript: A real life horror story CTV.ca - 26 Nov, 2011 Mohammad Shafia steps out from the police van at the Frontenac county courthouse in Kingston, Ont., on Monday Nov. 21, 2011. (Lars Hagberg / THE CANADIAN PRESS) It is a real life horror story. What is happening in a Kingston courtroom can leave no one ...
	Teens terrified of father, showed up at school with bruises, 'honour killings ... Globe and Mail - 26 Nov, 2011 The older victim in the Nissan Sentra found at the bottom of the lock, Rona Amir Mohammad, had rejoined the rest of the family in Canada in 2007 after living with them for many years in Dubai. Ostensibly, she was Mr. Shafia's cousin, but she was in ...
DiManno: Portrait of 'very sad' teen emerges at Kingston murder trial Toronto Star - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ Seventeen-year-old Sahar revealed to her vice-principal that at one point there was an order that no one in the family speak to her. The shunning lasted a "long time.” By Rosie DiManno Columnist KINGSTON�"It was a household of shifting alliances, ...
Teacher recalls Sahar Shafia for 'honour killing' trial: 'She wished to be free' National Post - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ An undated photo of Sahar Shafia retrieved from her cellphone, which was found inside the sunken Nissan Sentra in which the three Shafia girls' bodies were found in 2009. By Rob Tripp KINGSTON, Ont. �" Three teachers at a Montreal high school saw ...
	Teachers testify at Shafia trial CTV.ca - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ Sahar Shafia is shown in this photo released by the courts on Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO KINGSTON, Ont. �" Sahar Shafia, 17, showed up to class with bruised arms, collapsed at school and begged a teacher to help her move out, ...
	Teens terrified of father, showed up at school with bruises, 'honour killings ... Globe and Mail - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ One of the teenagers came to school with bruises, but wouldn't say how they occurred. Her angry younger sister was skipping classes, her grades plummeting. Both were desperate to leave home. And hovering over everything was the spectre of a controlling ...
Shafia daughter feared father's return CANOE - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ KINGSTON, ONT. - Weeks before she was found dead in the Rideau Canal, Sahar Shafia told one of her school teachers she feared the return of her father, Mohammad, from a business trip. “She was afraid (a family member) ...
Blatchford: Shafia case handled properly, the second time Montreal Gazette - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ KINGSTON, Ont. - If 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 ...
Teen told social worker of abuse, honour killing trial hears Montreal Gazette - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ KINGSTON, Ont. - A 17-year-old Montreal girl had been the victim of abuse by an older brother, a youth protection worker concluded, during an investigation seven weeks before Sahar Shafia was allegedly ...
	Shafia girls wanted to run away, teacher testifies CTV.ca - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ A schoolteacher for two girls allegedly killed by their family testified in a Kingston, Ont. courtroom on Thursday that they wanted to run away from home. Fathia Boualia told the court that 17-year-old Sahar Shafia came to her and asked if she moved ...
Shafia girl, 13, allegedly killed by family, wanted to run away, court told Macleans.ca - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ KINGSTON, Ont. - A pair of teenage sisters allegedly killed by their parents and brother were so desperate to escape from their family home that they asked seemingly every authority figure they encountered for help, court heard Thursday. ...
	Shafia dad suggested daughters possibly drugged CBC.ca - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ The father accused in the Kingston, Ont., canal deaths told police in an interrogation video shown during his trial Thursday that he wondered if someone drugged or choked his daughters prior to their deaths. Mohammad Shafia was interrogated a day after ...
Shafia girls were 'afraid in the house' Montreal Gazette - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ Sahar Shafia initially denied she was abused, but changed her story later, youth protection worker Jeanne Rowe told a murder trial in Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday. In the year before their deaths, ...
	Could someone have saved the Shafia girls? Macleans.ca - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ The “system” did not kill the Shafia sisters. If prosecutors are correct, and their midnight drowning was in fact a mass execution, the girls perished because their parents and ...
	Shafia Murder Trial: Tale of an Afghan-Canadian family murder mystery IBTimes Canada - 26 Nov, 2011 By Propita Shimray \| November 25, 2011 8:07 AM PST The twist and turn in the murder trial of an Afghan-Canadian family that happened in 2009 have unfolded a maze of domestic melodramas with three main players being accused of mass "honour killing". ...
Submerged-Car-Bodies CFJC TV Kamloops - ‎Nov 24, 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 ...
Teachers testify to Shafia girls' fear of father The Kingston Whig-Standard - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ Weeks before her death, Sahar Shafia told one of her school teachers that she was fearing the return of her father, Mohammad, from a business trip. "She was afraid (a family member) was going to tell her father she was a whore," teacher Antonella Enea ...
Shafia sisters were physically and psychologically tortured at home Oye! Times - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ Teachers of the deceased Shafia sisters informed the court that the teenage girls were abused at their home. In their lives, they told their teachers and a youth protection worker that they were physically and psychologically tortured at home, ...
Honor Killing Trial Reveals Abuse in the Shafia household Gather.com - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎ The honor killing trial continues in Kingston, Ontario, where an alleged Montreal father, originally from Afghanistan, conspired to have his daughters and former wife killed because of disgrace to the family. According to The Gazette, ...
Kingston detective befriended family, honour killing trial told Montreal Gazette - 26 Nov, 2011 Geeti Shafia, 13, pictured in a photo retrieved from Sahar Shafia's cellphone, which was found inside the sunken Nissan Sentra in which the three Shafia girls' bodies were found on June 30, 2009. ...
Blatchford: Meet Mr. Nice Cop �" the detective who won the Shafia clan's trust Canada.com - 26 Nov, 2011 Mohammad Shafia, Hamed Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya leave the courtroom at the Frontenac courthouse in Kingston, Ont., on Oct. 20. The three are charged with first degree murder of ...