Peer Mohammad Khairi and Ontario Court Appeal

appeal court: If a fresh trial couldn't be ordered, Khairi had asked that his period of parole ineligibility — currently set at 15 years after he was sentenced to life in prison — be lowered to 10 or 11 years, according to CBC. He was turned down by Ontario Court of Appeal on both fronts. "The conviction appeal is dismissed. Peer Mohammad Khairi, a father of six, had argued that the judge who presided over his trial made several errors, and asked the appeal court for a new trial. While we grant leave to appeal the sentence, the sentence appeal is dismissed," the court decision said. Alternatively, he claimed that he stabbed his wife in the heat of passion, caused by her allegedly provocative words and conduct," the appeal court wrote. Khairi had admitted to killing his wife in March 2008, it was the circumstances of the death that had been in dispute at his trial, the court noted. "He contended that he lacked the intent for murder due to mental health issues. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.