Teenage sisters convicted of drowning alcoholic mother in bath

TWO Canadian sisters were found guilty yesterday of murdering their alcoholic mother, who drowned in the bath.

Teenage sisters convicted of drowning alcoholic mother in bath

The sisters, now 18 and 19, planned their mother’s death on January 18, 2003, by making sure she was drunk and drugged with a pain reliever containing codeine before she took a bath at the family home in the suburb of Mississauga, west of Toronto.

“The case against them is overwhelming... the strongest case I’ve seen in 30 years,” Justice Bruce Duncan said in delivering his verdict.

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