KINGSTON, Ont. - The sister of a Montreal woman drowned with three teen girls says all she wants is justice.
Diba Abdaili Masoomi insisted in court in Kingston, Ont., Tuesday that she told the truth about phone calls she had with her older sister.
In those calls, Rona Amir Mohammad described an increasingly abusive homelife in Montreal and threats to kill her and the teens.
The Crown alleges that Mohammad's Afghan-Canadian husband, second wife and son drowned her and his three girls to preserve the family's honour.
Masoomi, who lives in France, admitted she never told anyone about the distressed calls.
She said she didn't believe anything like that could happen in Canada.
"In Afghanistan anything can happen. There is no law in Afghanistan. The women and children are dying," Masoomi testified.
"This is Canada. It's a developed country. Nothing like this will happen."
Masoomi testified that her sister's relationship with Mohammad Shafia was initially good, but things changed after he took another wife because she could not have children.
In call after call, her sister described increasingly abusive and frosty relations at home.
"I just want from the government of Canada to have justice," she said.
Mohammad, 52, and Shafia's three teens, Geeti, 13, Sahar, 17, and Zainab, 19, were found drowned in a car in a canal in Kingston, Ont., in June 2009.
Shafia, 58, his second wife Tooba Yahya, 41, and their son Hamed, 20, have pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.
A publication ban on Masoomi's identity was lifted after she finished her testimony.
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