Blatchford: The detective who won the Shafias' trust

Ottawa Citizen - 27 Nov, 2011
Some day, instructors at police colleges may use the video that Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger and a jury watched over a couple of days this week, and Kingston Police Det. ...

Officer played 'good cop' with Shafia family

Montreal Gazette - 27 Nov, 2011
Jurors at the Shafia murder trial heard Friday that one Kingston Police detective was assigned to buddy up to the Montreal family suspected of killing four members, in a bid to ferret out information. ...

Blatchford: Meet Mr. Nice Cop â€" the detective who won the Shafia clan's trust

Vancouver Sun - 27 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 ...

detective befriended family, honour killing trial told

Montreal Gazette - 27 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. ...

Before honour, reconnaissance

Macleans.ca - ‎Nov 25, 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) - ‎Nov 25, 2011‎
Mohammad Shafia walks from the holding cell at the Frontenac courthouse in Kingston, Ont. on Oct. 20, 2011. KINGSTON, Ont. â€" 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 - ‎Nov 25, 2011‎
KINGSTON, Ont. â€" 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 - ‎Nov 25, 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 - ‎Nov 25, 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 - ‎Nov 25, 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 - ‎Nov 25, 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 - ‎Nov 25, 2011‎
KINGSTON, Ont. â€" 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 - ‎Nov 25, 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 - ‎Nov 25, 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 - ‎Nov 25, 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 KINGSTONâ€"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. â€" 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. â€" 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 Trial Continues With Cellphone Analysis

Gather.com - 27 Nov, 2011
Shafia trial continues as Canada's most intriguing honor killing trial of all time. The courts are now examining the cellphone usage of Sahar Shafia and her brother Hamed Shafia. Like most Canadian teenagers these former residents of Afghanistan wanted ...

Shafia Murder Trial: Tale of an Afghan-Canadian family murder mystery

IBTimes Canada - ‎Nov 25, 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 ...

 

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