Neurosurgeon pleads guilty to second-degree murder in wife’s death
Posted April 8, 2019 6:04 am.
Last Updated April 8, 2019 8:16 am.
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TORONTO – A neurosurgeon accused of killing his physician wife has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in her death.
Mohammed Shamji had been charged with first-degree murder in the 2016 death of Elana Fric-Shamji, the mother of his three children.
He entered his guilty plea at a Toronto courthouse this morning, days before his trial was set to begin.
Fric-Shamji, a family doctor at Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, was last seen Nov. 30, 2016.
Her beaten body was found in a suitcase by the side of a road north of Toronto the following day.
Shamji, her husband of 12 years, was arrested a day later.
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