Man Accused of Killing Sisters Told Police His Mother Not Involved With Deaths

KINGSTON, Ont. - A young man accused, along with his parents, of killing his three sisters told a police interrogator his mother had nothing to do with the deaths and that she had been talking about suicide, court heard Tuesday.

The jury in the murder trial watched a video of the interrogation of Hamed Shafia, 20, after he was arrested more than two years ago in the deaths of his sisters and one of his father's two wives in a polygamous marriage.

Three teenage Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, were found dead inside a car submerged in the Rideau Canal in June 2009. The Montreal family had stopped in Kingston, Ont., on their way home from a trip to Niagara Falls, Ont.

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