Getting away with murder: How Canada’s courts have turned delay into a get-out-of-jail-free card

Getting away with murder: How Canada’s courts have turned delay into a get-out-of-jail-free card COMMENTARY 2 JULY 2026 i ARTICLE SUMMARY KEY STATS On the afternoon of May 28, 2021, two brothers, Abdulaziz and Mohamad Abdullah, were shot dead in a strip mall parking lot on Alta Vista Drive in Ottawa, in broad daylight. Investigators alleged the brothers had bounties on their heads following a robbery in the Dominican Republic, and that two men from Toronto had been hired to carry out the hit. A third brother was shot and survived. Police arrested the suspects and laid two counts of first-degr…