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TORONTO, April 23 (UPI) -- An immigrant couple in Toronto began serving lengthy prison terms Friday after being convicted of murdering their 5-year-old daughter.
After a day and a half of deliberations, the jury concluded Thursday that Muhammad Arsal Khan planned his daughter Farah's death in 1999. They also found Farah's stepmother, Kaneez Fatima, guilty because she did not do enough to stop Khan from killing the girl, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., said Friday.
Khan received an automatic sentence of life in prison with no parole for 25 years, while his wife faces a minimum of 10 years in jail.
Prosecutors said Khan, 40, was a violent man who hated his daughter because he suspected she was not his biological child.
Crown attorney David Fisher told the court Khan plotted his daughter's murder before the family immigrated to Canada from Pakistan in the spring of 1999.
Parts of the girl's body was found at a lakeside park in December, 1999.
Following his arrest, Khan initially told police Farah had committed suicide, a suggestion that even his own lawyer called "the stupidest, most transparent lie in the history of Anglo-Canadian law."
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