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Guilty verdict in pregnant shopkeeper murder
Hamilton Spectator
2/26/2013

A jury has delivered a guilty verdict in the first degree murder trial of Patrick Smith.

The 27 year old admitted to killing Elham Dashti in 2010, but says his intention was to only rob her downtown store.

When things didn't go as planned, the court heard he wrapped his arms around the 31-year-old's neck and dragged her to the store's basement.

He then strangled her with her own headscarf and beat her until she stopped making noise  She was pregnant at the time of her murder.

Smith has received a 25 year life sentence with no parole.

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  1. MariaR_6861 posted on 02/27/2013 09:37 AM
    Let him think about what he did . May he never see the light of the outside world.
    Let this be a lesson for all those who think they can just go out there and
    make a plan to do a crime and then they turn it to a senseless murder.
    The verdict fits the crime, but it does not wipe out the sorrow of the sadness of the victims heart and mind. May God bless the person who have to suffered and suffer for hoodlums, punks, whom now infiltrating all our daily lives. We need to get a head start on them. We need strong laws against even a minor crime because it turns into a major life threatening one. Unfortunately today not just hard core criminal types do a crime, but many of the young ones under 30 yrs. of age are engaging in all types of offenses and violating the rights of the citizens for peaceful existence. We must restore this. We are not just to says that they are young and need to learn. Yes, but they need tough love. Now days there is no discipline, and there fore there is no respect. The parental rights for discipline have been removed and also the school no longer can discipline.
    The day care center is not teaching discipline that is not their jobs. The only thing they are there fore to make sure that the children's are safe by all standards.
    They do not teach morale values, That is a daily job of the parents in the house.
    But, morale values have been taking a second bench in the lifes of people. Today it goes like this, do I like what is in my life, if I dont then lets protest.
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