In a stunning development, Aqsa Parvez’s father and youngest brother admitted on Tuesday they strangled her in her bedroom.
Muhammad Parvez, 60, and son Waqas, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 16-year-old Mississauga high school student’s death on the morning of Dec. 10, 2007.
At the time, Aqsa’s death sent shockwaves through the GTA prompting heated debate on the hijab, the challenges of integration for newcomers, and whether or not her death was the GTA’s first crime of honour or a horrible case of domestic violence.
Justice Bruce Durno will sentence the pair to an automatic life prison sentence once Crown prosecutors Sandra Caponecchia and Mara Basso complete the reading of an agreed statement filed jointly with defence lawyers Joe Ciraco and Stacey Nichols in a Brampton courtroom.
The father and son were scheduled to stand trial for first-degree murder next January.
The Grade 11 student was slain sometime around 7:30 a.m. in her bedroom in the basement of the family home on Longhorn Trail in Mississauga.
Muhammad called 911 just before 8 a.m. and confessed to strangling his daughter. Waqas was initially charged with obstructing police but then was suddenly arrested six months later and charged with first-degree murder.
Both men have remained in custody ever since.
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