Hamid Ayoub is on trial for the brutal stabbing of his estranged wife and daughter in 2021. While the facts of the attack are largely undisputed, the jury must decide whether the killings were premeditated or a result of impulsive rage.
There isn't much evidence that's in dispute at the trial of Hamid Ayoub after his brutal attack on his estranged wife and daughter in broad daylight on a busy Ottawa street in 2021. What the jury will have to decide is more complex.Hamid Ayoub, now 63, is standing trial on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the 2021 stabbings of his estranged wife, 50-year-old Hanadi Mohamed, and their 22-year-old daughter.
What the jury will have to decide starting next week is whether Ayoub's murder of Mohamed was planned and deliberate, or committed amid a pattern of criminal harassment — the two routes to first-degree murder the Crown is arguing for — or, as the defence contends, an impulsive explosion of rage and violence that favours a finding of guilt for second-degree murder.
The secrecy caused Ayoub to take the "drastic step" of surreptitiously tracking the car used by his children, starting Nov. 3, 2020. He watched and watched and watched, Tansey said, setting the device to tell him its location 68 times from November to the day of the attack. And he beset her again the day of the murder when he parked nearby, armed himself, approached and attacked without saying a word, Tansey argued.As for his attack on his daughter, Ayoub knew that one of the children who abandoned him would be there. His attack on her never wavered, and "ended only when she played dead," Tansey said.
"What he didn't plan for was injuring himself," Tansey told the jury. So Ayoub went to the hospital, turned off his phone, lied about how he was hurt and waited for treatment until his arrest.
He wanted to be part of their lives, but killing their mother wouldn't help them reconcile. That indicates that the murder was impulsive, Russomanno argued.
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