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A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which an individual kills multiple close family members in quick succession, most often children, spouses, siblings, or parents. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In half the cases, the killer lastly kills themselves in a murder-suicide .
In Canada, homicide is the act of causing death to another person through any means, directly or indirectly. Homicide can either be culpable or non-culpable, with the former being unlawful under a category of offences defined in the Criminal Code, a statute passed by the Parliament of Canada that applies uniformly across the country.
R. v. Jordan [2] was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada which rejected the framework traditionally used to determine whether an accused was tried within a reasonable time under section 11(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and replaced it with a presumptive ceiling of 18 months between the charges and the trial in a provincial court without preliminary inquiry, or 30 ...
Family murders are: Mass murders (four or more victims in a single location around the same time) where the victims are predominantly members of the same family, of more than one generation, or; Triple murders where the victims are parents and one of their children, and; The perpetrator(s) is/are either unknown or not (a) family member(s).
Canadian murder victims (4 C, 86 P) Capital punishment in Canada (5 C, 6 P) ... Homicide (Canadian law) List of unsolved murders in Canada; B. Bacon Brothers ...
Shocking new charges have been brought in the case of a family that was brutally murdered in their homes on Halloween night in 2015.. Cathy Scott, her husband Michael Scott, Mr Scott's mother ...
The Supreme Court of Canada is the court of last resort and final appeal in Canada. Cases successfully appealed to the Court are generally of national importance. Once a case is decided, the Court publishes written reasons for the decision, that consist of one or more opinions from any number of the nine justices.
The Shafia family murders took place on June 30, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with their father's first wife Rona Muhammad Omar, 52 (all of Afghan origin), were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills lock of the Rideau Canal, [1] after they were reported missing. [2]