Top court rejects appeal based on age

The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the case of a man convicted of murdering his three sisters and another woman in June 2009.

Hamed Shafia had sought leave to appeal to the court, arguing that new evidence showing he was a youth at the time of the deaths should not have been dismissed.

Shafia and his parents were found guilty in January 2012 of four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his teenage sisters and his father’s first wife in a polygamous marriage.

The four bodies were found in a car in the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ont.