Shafia trial jurors find family guilty of 1st-degree murder

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54. you can even try the entire passage from the judge's sentencing remarks

http://www.thestar.com/article/1123259--shafia-family-members-guilty-of-first-degree-murder

And Justice Robert Maranger, who presided over a trial that began last October, clearly concurred with the verdict.

Glaring at the defendants, now the convicted felons, the judge intoned: “It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous, more honourless crime.

“There is nothing more honourless than the deliberate murder of, in the case of Mohammad Shafia, three of his daughters and his wife; in the case of Tooba Yahya, three of her daughters and a stepmother to all her children; in the case of Hamed Shafia, three of his sisters and a mother.

“The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your twisted concept of honour, a notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honour that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.

“For these crimes, for these murders, the sentence is mandatory as set out in the Criminal Code of Canada — imprisonment without eligibility of parole for a period of 25 years — and that’s the sentence of the court for each of you.’’

No "honour killing there".

Just as easily interpreted as a rejection of the theory of honour killing ... since Shafia's "twisted concept of honour" / "sick notion of honour" actually is not the concept of honour inherent in honour killings.

The honour involved in honour killings is the honour of a family or a community, NOT of one ugly vicious man.