Shafia jury finds all guilty of 1st-degree murder - Ottawa - CBC News

Shafia jury finds all guilty of 1st-degree murder - Ottawa - CBC News: A Montreal couple and their son were all convicted Sunday of first-degree murder in the deaths of four family members in a case the judge called "despicable,' "heinous," and stemming from "a completely twisted concept of honour."

Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed had pleaded not guilty.

They were accused of killing Hamed's three sisters and their father's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.

The bodies of Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, along with Rona Mohammad Amir, 50, were found dead in the family’s Nissan, submerged in the Rideau Canal on June 30, 2009.

"It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous crime," Justice Robert Maranger said.

"The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honour ... that has absolutely no place in any civilized society," he said.