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Toronto Neurosurgeon Mohammed Shamji Charged With Killing Wife To Stand Trial Next Year

The Canadian Press, 18 Apr, 2018 12:23 PM
    TORONTO — A Toronto neurosurgeon accused of killing his physician wife will stand trial next year, a judge ordered Wednesday.
     
     
    Dr. Mohammed Shamji is charged with first-degree murder and committing an indignity to human remains in the death of Dr. Elana Fric-Shamji, the mother of his three children.
     
     
    Shamji appeared in a Toronto court briefly Wednesday morning, where judge John McMahon said the man's trial would begin April 1, 2019, and be heard by a jury.
     
     
    Shamji is scheduled to return to court May 30, when procedural motions related to his case will be discussed.
     
     
    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.
     
     
    An investigation revealed Fric-Shamji, a family doctor at Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, police have said.
     
     
    Prior to his arrest, Shamji worked at Toronto Western Hospital and was a faculty member at the University of Toronto.
     
     
    He and his wife both had advanced degrees in addition to their medical qualifications.
     
     
    Fric-Shamji had a master's degree in public policy from Duke University, according to a biography in research she published. Shamji has a PhD in biomedical engineering, also from Duke.

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