TORONTO - With Peer Khairi’s conviction for second-degree murder, there is justice at last for his invisible victim.
The jury was never shown any photos of Randjida when the Afghan immigrant’s long-suffering wife was still alive. They would be shown plenty of graphic pictures of her in death: her slain body, limp and twisted like a rag doll on a cot soaked through with her blood, her long black hair tangled over her face, the brutal gash to her neck that sliced through to her spine, the ugly puncture wounds to her chest and back, the bruises on her brown skin.
But her family wouldn’t give Randjida’s photo to the prosecution. Even in death, it was as if the wife and mother wasn’t considered a worthy person in her own right.
It took the jury three days to reject Khairi’s bizarre claim that he should be found guilty of manslaughter, that he’d been provoked because his 86-pound wife hurled heinous, culturally-sensitive insults and came at him brandishing a knife.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/11/peer-khair-convicted-of-second-degree-murder-in-killing-of-wife-randjida
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