content top

Vancouver: Jean Ann James convicted of first-degree murder in killing of Gladys Wakabayashi, daughter of Taiwanese billionaire

Jean Ann James is charged with first-degree murder in the Shaghnessy slaying of her former friend Gladys Wakabayashi, according to reports. Photograph by: La Chaine, Vancouver Sun

Gladys Wakabayashi in an undated photo. Jean Ann James, 72, is charged with first-degree murder in the 1992 stabbing of Wakabayashi. Photograph by: Submitted, The Province

Jean Ann James found guilty of 1992 Vancouver murder
James looked calm after learning jurors had reached a verdict after eight hours of deliberations
By Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun November 4, 2011 12:31 PM

(…)

VANCOUVER – A jury convicted Richmond senior Jean Ann James of first-degree murder Friday in the slaying of a woman she thought was sleeping with her husband back in 1992.
James looked calm after learning jurors had reached a verdict after eight hours of deliberations.
James, 72, was found guilty of slitting the throat of Gladys Wakabayashi, 41, on June 24, 1992.

read more

Girl adopted from China allegedly strangled to death by Quebec woman

A western Quebec man returned to this home from a business trip Saturday to find his daughter unconscious and wife seriously injured. (CBC)

Quebec mom faces murder charge in daughter’s death
CBC News
Posted: Oct 24, 2011 8:18 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 24, 2011 10:03 AM ET

A 53-year-old western Quebec woman will be formally charged with murder Monday in the death of her seven-year-old daughter, police say.

Quebec provincial police say Murray Fitzpatrick arrived at his home Saturday in Chelsea, Que., just north of Gatineau, where he found his daughter Sophie unconscious.

He also found his 53-year-old wife, Catherine Dufresne, seriously injured and called 911. Both were taken to hospital where the girl was pronounced dead, while the mother survived.

read more

Surrey: Court overturns convictions of Amjad Khan and Naim Mohammed Saghir found guilty of killing pregnant Tasha Lynn Rossette

Amjad Khan (right) and Naim Mohammed Saghir (left) were charged a year after Tasha Lynn Rossette's body was found in her Surrey apartment on Nov. 22, 2005 with her throat slashed. She had beens stabbed more than 40 times.

Court overturns convictions of men found guilty of killing pregnant Surrey woman
By KIM BOLAN, VANCOUVER SUN September 27, 2011

Photograph by: PNG files, …

METRO VANCOUVER — Two men found guilty of killing a pregnant Surrey woman in 2005 have had their convictions overturned by the B.C. Court of Appeal.
Amjad Khan and Naim Mohammed Saghir were charged a year after Tasha Lynn Rossette‘s body was found in her Surrey apartment on Nov. 22, 2005 with her throat slashed. She had beens stabbed more than 40 times.
Khan had been dating Rossette, a 21-year-old young mother, and was said to be unhappy when she told him she was pregnant with his child and didn’t want an abortion.

read more

El Salvadoran Henry Morales wanted on a second-degree murder warrant for allegedly strangling his wife Malena

Suspected wife killer still on the lam
By ROB LAMBERTI, Toronto Sun
Last Updated: March 11, 2011 5:13pm

Henry Morales. (Peel police handout)

Almost five years later and suspected killer Henry Morales is still on the run.

The man vanished after allegedly strangling his wife Malena on July 13, 2006, in their Brampton apartment.

read more

Illegal immigrant Nevin Joseph convicted in Felicia Hosany’s murder

Felicia Hosany

Man convicted in florist slaying
Victim’s husband disappointed in second manslaughter conviction
By SAM PAZZANO, Courts Bureau

Last Updated: March 4, 2011 5:33pm

A second killer in the suffocation death of beloved North York florist Felicia Hosany pleaded guilty Friday to manslaughter.

Nevin Joseph, 25, also admitted he and criminal mastermind Andre “Andrew” Clarke committed three other robberies before the fatal hold-up of Hosany on Feb. 28, 2008, at her Flowers by Felicia store on Wilson Heights Blvd.

read more

Chechen Aset Magomadova gets probation for strangling troubled daughter to death using headscarf

Aset Magomadova was convicted of manslaughter last fall for using a scarf to kill her troubled daughter, Aminat, 14, after a violent struggle in their southeast home. Magomadova was acquitted on the original second-degree murder charge.

Calgary mom who killed daughter gets probation
Last Updated: Thursday, July 15, 2010 | 1:07 PM MT
Comments 277 Recommend 115

CBC News
Aset Magomadova, pictured leaving the Calgary Courts Centre in June, has received a suspended sentence for killing her daughter. (CBC)

A Calgary judge has given a suspended sentence to a mother who strangled her daughter to death in 2007.

read more
content top