The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed a request for a new trial for a Montreal couple and their son who were convicted of first-degree murder in the so-called honour killings of four female family members in 2009. "Charitably put, the evidence of guilt was overwhelming," Justice David Watt wrote in the decision released Wednesday, and co-signed by two other Court of Appeal justices. Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed launched an appeal earlier this year. The Ontario Court of Appeal heard the case because the original trial was held in Kingston, Ont., where the women were killed. The bodies of Shafia and Yahya's three teenage daughters and Shafia's first wife were found in a car at the bottom of the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ont.

Source: CBC News November 02, 2016 16:13 UTC