Supreme Court orders new murder trial for Jennifer Pan

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 12:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 14 minutes ago

The Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed an bid for caller first-degree execution trials for a Toronto-area pistillate and 3 others who were convicted successful an onslaught connected her parents.

Jennifer Pan was sentenced successful 2015 to beingness successful situation with nary accidental of parole for 25 years for first-degree murder, and beingness for attempted murder, for a 2010 onslaught that near her parent dormant and her begetter with a superior caput wound.

Her 3 co-accused were convicted connected the aforesaid charges.

In its ruling today, the Supreme Court says determination should beryllium caller first-degree execution trials for each four, but affirmed the convictions for attempted murder.

Ontario's Court of Appeal already had ordered caller trials connected the first-degree execution convictions.

The Court of Appeal said the proceedings justice erred by suggesting to the assemblage lone 2 scenarios for the onslaught — one successful which the program was to execution some parents, and different successful which the program was to perpetrate a location penetration and the parents were changeable successful the people of the robbery.