Three guilty of ‘honour killing’

Three members of an Afghan Canadian family were yesterday found guilty of the “honour killing” of three siblings and a fourth relative.

A jury in Kingston, Ontario, found the three — husband and wife Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their eldest son Hamed Mohammad Shafia — guilty of four counts of first-degree murder.

Their victims were three of Hamed’s sisters and the woman introduced to outsiders as a cousin, who turned out to be Mohammad Shafia’s first wife in a polygamous marriage.

Canadian media quoted Judge Robert Maranger as saying: “The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honour.”

* Reuters