29 January 2012
Last updated at 16:33 ET
The three members of the Shafia family convicted were sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison
Three members of an Afghan immigrant family in Canada have been convicted of murdering four female relatives in a so-called “honour” killing.
The bodies – three teenage girls and their father’s first wife – were found in a car submerged in a canal in the city of Kingston, Ontario, in 2009.
The girls’ father, brother and mother will serve at least 25 years in prison.
Prosecutors said the father was angered that his two eldest daughters wanted boyfriends, in defiance of his values.
The court heard how Mohammad Shafia had become increasingly angry and upset with his three teenage daughters for having secret relationships with boys and wearing revealing clothes.
‘Twisted notion of honour’
The prosecution relied heavily on wiretap recordings that revealed the level of Shafia’s anger and comments in which
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