Montreal man who stabbed pregnant wife, killing unborn child, to serve 15 years before parole eligibility

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Montreal man who stabbed pregnant wife, killing unborn child, to serve 15 years before parole eligibility
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Sofiane Ghazi was given a life sentence after pleading guilty to second\u002Ddegree murder

During sentencing arguments held July 13, prosecutor Chantal Michaud asked that Ghazi’s period of parole ineligibility be set at 18 years, while defence lawyer Steve Hanafi argued it should be set at 12 years.On July 24, 2017, Ghazi used a meat fork to stab his wife 19 times in the abdomen and on one of her thighs during an argument in their apartment. She was 36 weeks pregnant at the time. The woman, whose name cannot be published due to a court-ordered publication ban, was taken to a hospital.

Ghazi then left the apartment with the only phone the family had, and drove away in the one vehicle available to the couple. A neighbour in the apartment building came to the woman’s aid and called for an ambulance. “The things he said three days before and the location of the 19 wounds — all on the wife’s belly, or close to it, and at least half injuring the fetus — showed that he wanted to prevent the birth of their third child,” Buffoni said. He called Ghazi’s crimes “horrible, fuelled by extreme conjugal violence and a brutality that has no name.

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