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<h6><span style="color: #999999;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><em>&#8216;I&#8217;m so sorry we don&#8217;t have the death penalty in this country because Mohammed Shamji deserves death for what he did&#8217;</em> &#8211; Victim&#8217;s mother after sentencing</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;">Toronto neurosurgeon, 43, who strangled his physician wife, 40, stuffed her body into a suitcase and left it by a river days after she filed for divorce is sentenced to life in prison</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;">Mohammed Shamji, 43, pled guilty to second-degree murder last month</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;">He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars with no chance of parole for 14 years on Thursday</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;">Mohammed, then 40, killed his physician wife Elana Fric-Shamji, then 40, in 2016 after an argument</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;"> <span style="font-size: inherit;">Mohammed, a student of jiu jitsu, had inflicted a battery of injuries on his wife, including breaking her neck, 20 blunt force impacts to her head, and 22 to her limbs</span></span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;">The Toronto neurosurgeon then stuffed her body into a suitcase and left it by the Humber river, days after she filed for divorce </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;">The court was told Mohammed Shamji broke his wife&#8217;s neck and ribs and choked her to death as their three children slept nearby</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;">Fric-Shamji had filed for divorce two days before her death after alleging their 12-year marriage was marred by domestic violence</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #403535;"><span style="color: #403535;">The savage murder sent shock waves through the Toronto medical community where the couple were highly regarded doctors </span></span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-2.png?resize=620%2C604&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-2.png?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=580%2C565&;ssl=1" width="580" height="565" />Healer turned brutal killer: <strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mohammed Shamji [left] pled guilty to the second-degree murder of his wife, Elana Fric Shamji [right], who was found dead in a suitcase in Vaughan, Ontario in 2016</span></strong></h6>
<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;"> A Toronto based neurosurgeon who pled guilty to<a title="Toronto neurosurgeon, 43, pleads guilty to the 2016 murder of his wife just days before his trial is due to start – Mohammed Shamji, strangled his physician wife, Elana, stuffed her body into a suitcase and left it by a river" href="https://konniemoments.com/2019/04/08/toronto-neurosurgeon-43-pleads-guilty-to-the-2016-murder-of-his-wife-just-days-before-his-trial-is-due-to-start-mohammed-shamji-strangled-his-physician-wife-elana-stuffed-her-body-into-a-suitc/"> strangling his wife and stuffing her body in a suitcase which he left by a river in 2016</a>, has received the maximum punishment for his crime.<br />
The defendant who made his admission in the three-year-old crime, </span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">just</span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;"> days before his trial was due to begin was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 14 years.<br />
Mohammed Shamji, 43, entered a guilty plea to the second-degree murder of Elana Fric-Shamji, 40, at a Toronto, Canada, courthouse in April.<br />
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Sentencing him Justice John McMahon said the case is yet another tragic instance of domestic homicide that he sees far too often.<br />
The court heard that Mohammed Shamji broke his wife&#8217;s neck and ribs and choked her to death as their three children slept nearby.<br />
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<div class="mh-excerpt"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Judge McMahon credited the defendant for his last-minute guilty plea, which saved his young daughter from testifying., but he condemned him for the savage and brutal murder.<br />
After the sentencing the victim&#8217;s dissatisfied mother, justice wasn&#8217;t done: &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry we don&#8217;t have the death penalty in this country because Mohammed Shamji deserves death for what he did,&#8221; Ana Fric said .</span></div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong><img src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Elana-Fric-Shamji-Left-and-Mohammed-Shamji-right-1.png?resize=620%2C347&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Elana-Fric-Shamji-Left-and-Mohammed-Shamji-right-1.png?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=580%2C324&;ssl=1" width="580" height="324" />Victim Dr Elana Fric-Shamji [left]worked as a family doctor at the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital in Toronto. Her &#8216;killer&#8217; husband, Mohammed [right], was a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospita</strong>l </span></h6>
<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">A statement read out in court said Shamji killed his wife, then 40, during an argument. She had filed for divorce two days earlier.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Fric-Shamji claimed she had been a victim of domestic violence during their 12-year marriage.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">The neurosurgeon, who has been in custody since his arrest on December 2, 2016, stuffed his wife&#8217;s body into a suitcase where it was discovered dumped the next day by a passer-by near the Humber River in the southern Ontario city of Vaughan.<br />
The court heard that </span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Fric, 40, a well-loved family physician at Scarborough Hospital and a key member of the Ontario Medical Association’s policy committee, died of strangulation and blunt force trauma sometime between the evening of Nov. 30 and the morning of Dec. 1, 2016.<br />
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Her husband Mohammed, a student of jiu jitsu, had inflicted a battery of injuries, including breaking her neck, 20 blunt force impacts to her head, and 22 to her limbs.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Shamji then stuffed her body in a suitcase that he threw in the Humber River, near Kleinberg.</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Shamji was arrested at a coffee shop in Mississauga a day after her body was found.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Speaking outside the courthouse after his guilty plea, Ana Fric, Elana&#8217;s mother, said: &#8216;Justice will never befall us. The only justice we will ever have is if she will come back — and she will never come back.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">News of the murder and Shamji&#8217;s complicity was met with shock in the Toronto area at the time, particularly within the medical community.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The Shamjis were highly regarded doctors whose marriage produced three children.</span></div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-3-1.png?resize=620%2C605&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-3-1.png?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=580%2C565&;ssl=1" width="580" height="565" /><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mohammed Shamji [seen left with the spouse he was accuse of killing] was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. </span>T<span style="font-size: inherit;">he two Duke Univ. alums posted pictures on social media suggesting a happy couple. However, Fric-Shamji claimed their marriage was marked by domestic violence</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Elana-Fric-Shamji-4.png?resize=277%2C358&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Elana-Fric-Shamji-4.png?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=275%2C356&;ssl=1" width="580" height="751" />Tragic victim of domestic battery: <strong>Elana F<span style="font-size: inherit;">ric-Shamji [L-R], worked as a family doctor at the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital in Toronto. Fric served her husband with divorce papers on Nov. 28, 2016.</span></strong></h6>
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<div><span style="font-size: inherit;">Fric-Shamji worked as a family doctor at the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital in Toronto.</span></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Before his arrest, Shamji was a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital and a faculty member at the University of Toronto.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">They both had advanced degrees from Duke University in the US.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Witnesses reported hearing the couple arguing at their home on the night of the killing.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Law enforcement officials alleged that Fric-Shamji was hit with a blunt force object in the couple&#8217;s garage.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Neighbors told the </span><a class="class" style="font-size: inherit;" href="http://www.torontosun.com/2016/12/02/toronto-doctors-disappearance-worries-neighbours-friends" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Toronto Sun</a><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;"> newspaper that Elana Fric-Shamji had filed for divorce from her husband and that she was in &#8216;good spirits&#8217; in the days leading up to her death because she was &#8216;looking toward her new life&#8217;.</span></span></div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-and-their-children-5.png?resize=580%2C664&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-and-their-children-5.png?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=580%2C664&;ssl=1" width="580" height="664" /> <strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">The couple&#8217;s 12-year marriage produced three children seen here with Mohammed. The oldest was set to testify against her dad before his surprise guilty plea last month. T</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">wo were in court to hear their father plead guilty</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-6.png?resize=599%2C591&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Mohammed-Shamji-left-and-Elana-Fric-Shamji-right-6.png?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=580%2C572&;ssl=1" width="580" height="572" /></strong><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Police believe Shamji [left] killed his wife Elana [right] in the couple&#8217;s garage after an argument. The neurosurgeon broke his wife&#8217;s neck and ribs and choked her to death as their three children slept nearby, the court heard </span></strong></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #999999;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><em><img class="alignnone wp-image-318950" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Ana-Fric-1-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="685" height="516" /></em></span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">The victim&#8217;s mother, Ana Fric , &#8216;Justice will never befall us. The only justice we will ever have is if she will come back — and she will never come back.&#8217;</span></strong></h6>
<div><span style="font-size: inherit;">At the time of the killing, the couple&#8217;s children – Yasmin now 14, Faiza, 11, and five-year-old Marius, were placed in the care of her maternal grandparents.</span></div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Fric-Shamji&#8217;s grisly death was a far cry from images the couple presented on their social media accounts, which show a husband and wife enjoying one another&#8217;s company.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">However, sources told the Toronto Sun in 2016 that the marriage was marred by previous incidents in which the police were called to the house.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;It&#8217;s very shocking,&#8217; a friend told the Sun. </span></div>
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Toronto neurosurgeon, 43, who strangled his physician wife, 40, stuffed her body into a suitcase and left it by a river days after she filed for divorce is sentenced to life in prison
