KINGSTON, Ont. - The Crown at a family murder trial is suggesting that a surviving son's memory is selectively improving.
The Crown attorney at the Shafia family trial today suggested to the son, who can't be named, that he has made some changes to the story he told police, and that all of his changes help his family in some way.
Tooba Yahya, 42, and her husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, are charged alongside their eldest son, Hamed, 20, with four counts of first-degree murder.
They're accused of killing Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Shafia's other wife in a polygamous marriage.
Another son of the Shafias and brother to the girls testified as a defence witness and just finished more than a full day of an often testy cross-examination.
Crown attorney Gerard Laarhuis suggested to him that the inaccuracies in his testimony are a result of trying to protect his family, a suggestion the son denied.
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