'Honor' Killers sentenced

By Rob Janicki
An Afghan couple and their son were found guilty on Sunday in a Canadian court, of four counts of murder.  Three of the victims were the daughters of Mohammad Shafia and his wife Tooba Yahya, immigrants originally from Afghanistan.  A fourth victim was the first wife of Mohammed Shafia in a continuing polygamous marriage arrangement. The murders were the result of "honor" killings.  Shafia's first wife was just a bonus killing, since she had become disenchanted with the marriage arrangement and her life in the family and was going to seek a divorce, thus exposing the family's secret polygamous marriage arrangement.

CBC News
[...]  Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed, who had pleaded not guilty, were each handed an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years ... in a case the judge called "despicable," "heinous" and stemming from "a completely twisted concept of honour."  [...]

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