“Throughout the 2012 trial, the accused maintained they were never at the locks when the Nissan Sentra carrying the four victims plunged into the canal.
But at the hearing in which Yahya requested to visit her mother’s grave, she offered a different version of those events.
“You confirmed that your husband, with the complicity of your son, committed the murder in front of your eyes,” says the Parole Board of Canada decision, dated Sept. 10, which has been obtained by CBC News.
Yahya told the board that, on the night of the killings, she was in the Nissan with the victims while Shafia and Hamed went to find a motel in their Lexus SUV.
According to Yahya’s new story, Shafia told her to get in the Lexus when they returned. As he drove the SUV into the Nissan, she asked him what he was doing, and he replied he was “going to kill them.”
She said that she tried to stop him from where she was sitting in the back seat, to no avail. He then rammed the Nissan a second time, plunging it into the water.
“At the hearing, you admitted that you are guilty for not protecting your children. You said that you could not save them,” the decision says.
Yahya, Shafia and Hamed were sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.”
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