A 31-year-old man who spent more than half his life in a Montreal street gang is set to be released within days on a sentence he received after shooting a rival inside a West Island strip club.
On March 3, 2008, Luders Jeanty – by his own admission, a member of a Montreal street gang since he was 14 – walked into Cabaret Bazaz on Gouin Blvd. W., near Sunnybrooke Blvd., in Pierrefonds, and opened fire on a man who had argued with three of his friends earlier that night.
The trio, including a prolific drug dealer in the West Island, had been ordered out of the bar after the argument but returned a short while later with Jeanty.
Eight people were standing or seated less than two metres from the victim when Jeanty shot him; the man suffered superficial wounds despite being struck in the chest, neck and one ear.

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Self-described gangster convicted of attempted murder set for parole
32-year-old involved in shooting at Pierrefonds strip club
Paul CherryThe Gazette Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A 31-year-old man who spent more than half his life in a Montreal street gang is set to be released within days on a sentence he received after shooting a rival inside a West Island strip club.
On March 3, 2008, Luders Jeanty – by his own admission, a member of a Montreal street gang since he was 14 – walked into Cabaret Bazaz on Gouin Blvd. W., near Sunnybrooke Blvd., in Pierrefonds, and opened fire on a man who had argued with three of his friends earlier that night.
The trio, including a prolific drug dealer in the West Island, had been ordered out of the bar after the argument but returned a short while later with Jeanty.

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… More Images »  A shooting involving street gang members in 2008 was among incidents that led the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux to suspend Cabaret Bazaz’s licence for 35 days.Photograph by: John Kenney, Gazette files
MONTREAL â A 31-year-old man who spent more than half his life in a Montreal street gang is set to be released on a sentence he received after shooting a rival inside a West Island strip club.
On March 3, 2008, Luders Jeanty â by his own admission, a member of a Montreal street gang since he was 14 â walked into Cabaret Bazaz on Gouin Blvd. W., near Sunnybrooke Blvd., in Pierrefonds, and opened fire on a man who had argued with three of Jeantyâs friends earlier that night.
The trio, including a prolific drug dealer in the West Island, had been ordered out of the bar after the argument but they returned a short while later with Jeanty.

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All of the victims had drowned but examinations could not pinpoint where and how they drowned.
The three-month-long trial revealed that Shafia was enraged because he felt his daughters had violated strict cultural rules about sexual modesty, they dressed in revealing clothes and they were disobedient. Mohammad wanted a divorce and sup-ported the three girls in their pursuit of western lifestyles. She and Yahya clashed frequently and Mohammad wrote, in a diary entered as evidence, that she was abused, humiliated and isolated.
Lawyer Peter Kemp, who rep-resents Mohammad Shafia, said: “He was not convicted for what he did, he was convicted for what he said,” Kemp said in reference to damning wiretap recordings played during the trial. On the recordings, Shafia was over-heard cursing his dead daughters as “whores,” “prostitutes,” and “honourless girls.”

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Lawyer Peter Kemp, who represents Shafia, said he had not yet talked to his client about the possibility of an appeal.”He was not convicted for what he did, he was convicted for what he said,” Kemp said in an interview outside the courtroom, in a reference to damning wiretap recordings played during the trial. On the recordings, Shafia was overheard cursing his dead daughters as “whores,” “prostitutes,” and “honourless girls.”In one recording, Shafia said: “May the devil shit on their graves.”Defence lawyer David Crowe, who represents Yahya, and defence lawyer Patrick McCann, who represents Hamed, both said they believe their clients will appeal.Crown lawyer Gerard Laarhuis said police and prosecutors are pleased with the verdicts.”We want to thank the jury for their very real contribution to the administration of justice,” he said, speaking to a crowd of reporters and spectators on the front lawn of the courthouse.”Our community should be very proud of the quality investigation done by the Kingston police and police from various police organizations throughout Canada.”© Copyright (c) Postmedia News

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POSSIBILITY OF APPEALLawyer Peter Kemp, who represents Shafia, said he had not yet talked to his client about the possibility of an appeal.”He was not convicted for what he did, he was convicted for what he said,” Kemp said in an interview outside the courtroom, in a reference to damning wiretap recordings played during the trial. On the recordings, Shafia was overheard cursing his dead daughters as “whores,” “prostitutes” and “honourless girls.”In one recording, Shafia said: “May the devil shit on their graves.”Defence lawyer David Crowe, who represents Yahya, and defence lawyer Patrick McCann, who represents Hamed, both said they believe their clients will appeal.Crown lawyer Gerard Laarhuis said police and prosecutors are pleased with the verdicts.”We want to thank the jury for their very real contribution to the administration of justice,” he said, speaking to a crowd of reporters and spectators on the front lawn of the courthouse.”It’s a very sad day because this jury found that four strong, vivacious and freedom-loving women w …

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Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, were found dead June 30, 2009, inside the family’s Nissan Sentra that was discovered submerged at the bottom of the Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills, a lock station on the Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario. Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, also was in the car. She was Shafia’s first wife, whom he married in his native Afghanistan before the polygamous family moved to Canada in 2007 and settled in Montreal.
All of the victims had drowned but examinations could not pinpoint where and how they drowned. At contention during the trial, was whether Mr Shafia’s actions and that of his son and second wife had actually led to the physical and direct death of the daughters and Mr Shafia’s first wife.
Maintains Mr Shafia’s lawyer, Peter Kemp who is considering whether to appeal the verdict:
“He was not convicted for what he did, he was convicted for what he said,”  in reference to damning wiretap recordings played during the trial. On the recordings, Shafia was overheard cursing his dead daughters as “whores,” “prostitutes,” and “honourless girls.”

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… He was not convicted for what he did, he was convicted for what he said,â Kemp said in an interview outside the courtroom, in a reference to damning wiretap recordings played during the trial. On the recordings, Shafia was overheard cursing his dead daughters as âœwhores,â âœprostitutes,â and âœhonourless girls.â
In one recording, Shafia said: âœMay the devil s–t on their graves.â
Defence lawyer David Crowe, who represents Yahya, and defence lawyer Patrick McCann, who represents Hamed, both said they believe their clients will appeal.
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Most damning were the recollections of two of Yahyaâs relatives, her brother Fazil Javid and her paternal uncle, Latif Hyderi, who both said that Shafia spoke to them of wanting to kill his oldest daughter Zainab because she had shamed him by running away from home and marrying an unacceptable young Pakistani man, acts that made her, in her fatherâs eyes, a âœwhoreâ and a âœprostitute.â

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Lawyer Peter Kemp, who represents Shafia, said he had not yet talked to his client about the possibility of an appeal.”He was not convicted for what he did, he was convicted for what he said,” Kemp said in an interview outside the courtroom, in a reference to damning wiretap recordings played during the trial. On the recordings, Shafia was overheard cursing his dead daughters as “whores,” “prostitutes,” and “honourless girls.”In one recording, Shafia said: “May the devil shit on their graves.”Defence lawyer David Crowe, who represents Yahya, and defence lawyer Patrick McCann, who represents Hamed, both said they believe their clients will appeal.Crown lawyer Gerard Laarhuis said police and prosecutors are pleased with the verdicts.”We want to thank the jury for their very real contribution to the administration of justice,” he said, speaking to a crowd of reporters and spectators on the front lawn of the courthouse.”Our community should be very proud of the quality investigation done by the Kingston police and police from various police organizations throughout Canada.”© Copyright (c) Postmedia News

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KINGSTON, Ont. – Two days before Mohammad Shafia was arrested for the murder of his three daughters and one of his two wives, he went on a vitriolic rant about his dead children, cursing and condemning their supposed treachery — and then he washed his hands.
It was a profound, if coincidental, end to a hateful rant from a man found guilty Sunday along with his son and wife of four counts of first-degree murder committed, court heard, for reasons most Canadians would find trivial such as dating.
But with that hate-filled diatribe Shafia made it clear he was indeed washing his hands of his daughters, comparing them to prostitutes, telling himself that he “did well” and would do the same again if they came back to life 100 times.

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