Ontario\u0027s top court has ordered a new first\u002Ddegree murder trial for a Toronto\u002Darea woman who was convicted in a murder\u002Dfor\u002Dhire plot.
But the trial judge should have given the jury second-degree murder and manslaughter as other possible verdicts in the death of Pan’s mother, the Appeal Court said..“The jury might have had a doubt about the planned and deliberate murder of Pan’s mother but be satisfied that the appellants knew that the murder of Pan’s mother was a probable consequence of a plan to kill her father,” the court said in its decision.
Prosecutors said during trial that neither Wong nor Crawford were at the Pan home that night, but acted as middle-men for her and the men who carried out the killing. Another man whose case proceeded separately pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to 18 years. The Crown said Pan started plotting her parents’ murder after they forced her to choose between them and Wong, who dealt marijuana and managed a Boston Pizza.
The ultimatum came after the Pans discovered much of what their daughter had told them over the past decade was a lie. She had never graduated high school, graduated from university with a pharmacy degree, volunteered at the Hospital for Sick Children, nor was she working at a Walmart pharmacy, the Appeal Court said.
Pan decided to move back home, but testified that she had a poor relationship with her father, who was the “rule maker” of the household, while she was closer with her mother.We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
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