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Peter Kemp: Jurors

Tooba Mohammad Yahya Dept: "They all drowned accidentally," lawyer Peter Kemp, who represents Shafia, said in his two-hour closing address to jurors, according to Montreal Gazette. Shafia, 58, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, have each pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and mohammad Shafia, an Afghan immigrant who brought his 10-member family to Montreal in 2007, had no motive to kill four of them and he did not have time to murder them on the morning they were found dead, jurors at his murder trial were told Tuesday. Kemp spoke first as the three-month-long murder trial moved into its final phase, with lawyers and the judge addressing jurors before they begin deliberating. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.