Nurse Susan Chen, a mother of five, died from blood loss in April 2019.
Susan Chen died as the result of a violent sexual assault at the hands of her husband, a Toronto judge has found.
The judge also rejected Jalali’s “fantastic claims” in his own testimony that a mysterious person named “Genady” was actually responsible for Chen’s death. Brown said it was the sexual assault via anal intercourse that caused Chen’s death, and that a reasonable person in Jalali’s position would have known that such an act would likely put the victim “at risk of bodily harm that is neither trivial nor transitory.” And so he convicted Jalali of manslaughter.
Brown acquitted Jalali of murder because he was left with a reasonable doubt as to whether Jalali knew that the bodily harm he was inflicting on Chen was likely to be fatal. He highlighted that one expert witness testified that Chen’s death “was a rare and unusual outcome in the circumstances.” Chief among those lies was his testimony that he was just joking when he was recorded by Chen herself over the years threatening to beat and rape her.
“It is simply not believable to suggest, as the defendant did in his evidence, that his comments were meant as jokes or to make the deceased feel better,” Brown wrote.
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