Thursday, April 22, 2004
Pyscho will walk
UPDATE: I’m glad to be wrong
Subject: Breaking News: Farah Khan Verdict
Kaneez Fatima has been found guilty of second-degree murder and Muhammad Khan has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the Farah Khan case.
Sent 3:05pm- April 22, 2004
For live coverage watch CP24.
Mark my words, the “defenceless” step-mother of little Farah Khan will walk, while the father will rightly go down for 1st degree murder. This story states that the jury, wrongly, did not get the whole story. They got some sympathetic information on the step mother, but were not told about her violent past.
But if Fatima really was that innocent, then why didn’t she do more to stop Muhammad Arsal Khan from killing his only child, a girl she claimed to love as her own?
This case has shades of the Homolka battered wife syndrome. Fact is, Mrs. Khan probably was a battered woman, in at least one of her marriages. Why can’t the jury get the whole story, instead of just the sympathetic portion of her life? It appears the judge didn’t trust the jury’s ability to sort out the information—which will most like lead to her aquittal.