First Degree Murder: Good Boy

Intricacies Dept: With a sigh, regretfully, as if shouldering the patriarchal burden of King Lear who had only three difficult daughters compared to his five the Afghan father says all his children were liars, the whole pack of them, according to The Star. Hamed, 20, sits sandwiched between the parental units every day in the defendants box, showing no emotion when prosecutors and several witnesses lay out the intricacies of his rather whopping fabrications in statements to police; stories even he, court has heard, later conceded were alibi inventions and kINGSTON Except Hamed, of course, a good boy, yet the only one from among Mohammad Shafia s spawn of seven who stands charged with first-degree murder. Like his dad, like his mom. Murder times four. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.