Two very tragic and horrifying cases reported today. they should make Canadians think long and hard about our crumbling immigration and refugee system and how people are screened for potential criminality. We have a duty to protect those who come to Canada to work, contribute and support their families, and to provide a safe environment for them. In all cases, the victims were also immigrants. Very sad.
Kembo gets life for killing family, friend
Canwest News Service · Saturday, Jun. 12, 2010
A B.C. Supreme Court jury last night found Charles Kembo guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his stepdaughter, wife, mistress and friend.
"You are a serial killer," B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein said in sentencing Kembo to a mandatory life sentence without parole eligibility for 25 years.
She said she would have made his four life sentences consecutive if she could have: "You should never walk the streets again."
Kembo, a 41-year-old former refugee from Malawi, killed his business associate Arden Samuel, his stepdaughter Rita Yeung, his girlfriend Sui Yin Ma and his wife, Margaret Kembo, whose body has never been found. The slayings occurred between 2002 and 2005.
Crown lawyers argued Kembo killed the four to assume their identities for financial gain. Defence lawyer Don Morrison has told the court that his client is "a fraudster, but he's not a murderer."
The trial also heard salacious details of his sexual relationship with stepdaughter Ms. Yeung, whose body was found in the Fraser River in July 2005.
The pair had sex in a Holiday Inn washroom the day of her death, he told the court in April, saying the incestuous relationship "was fun."
Mr. Samuel was found strangled with his penis cut off and stuffed down his pants in November 2003, while his mistress, Ms. Ma, was found in a hockey bag in November 2004.Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/Kembo+gets+life+killing+family+friend/3145749/story.html#ixzz0qe5TYZLk
Two men convicted in murder of maid
National Post News Services · Saturday, Jun. 12, 2010
A Brampton jury yesterday found two tradesmen guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a Filipino maid in a Mississauga mansion.
Cristian Figueroa, 37, and Fabian Loayza-Penaloza, 40, were silent and betrayed no emotion as the jury delivered the verdict after six hours of deliberation. They will serve the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance at parole until 25 years.
The accused, both immigrants from Ecuador, admitted they planned to rob the 30,000-square-foot mansion on Oct. 1, 2007.
However, each blamed the other for the death of 27-year-old Jocelyn Dulnuan.
Her body was found strangled with a copper wire wrapped twice around her neck and knotted at her throat.
Jurors were not required to decide who strangled Ms. Dulnuan in order to find one or both men guilty of first-degree murder. The Crown alleged the tradesmen worked as a team -- "one to hold, one to find the wire" for strangling her. She was attacked in a basement kitchen near her bedroom.
"[Ms. Dulnuan] turned out to be the only protection for the house.... Controlling and silencing her became a two-man job," Crown attorney Steve Sherriff told jurors when the trial opened in May.
Loayza-Penaloza had been employed as a painter in the home. He admitted to bringing Figueroa there to check it out for a future robbery, but said his partner worked alone when he removed a small safe and attacked the maid. He maintained that he didn't know Ms. Dulnuan was dead until Figueroa confessed to him 10 days later.Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/convicted+murder+maid/3145760/story.html#ixzz0qe68hVKF
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