Cell video played in court captures deadly domestic attack on Scarborough woman - BERITAJA

A cardinal portion of grounds successful a fatal lawsuit of intimate partner violence played successful tribunal Wednesday captured a verbal altercation that turned physical.

The disturbing video was played astatine the proceedings for Irfan Khan, charged pinch the first-degree execution of his wife, Saima Khalid, a 50-year-old mother of 3 who was fatally stabbed wrong the couple’s Scarborough flat connected March 10, 2023.

Toronto constabulary homicide Det. Sgt. Munish Dhoum testified the video was recovered connected Khan’s cellphone aft his arrest.

It originates pinch the 54-year-old man looking straight astatine the camera while arguing pinch a woman, who could beryllium heard yelling successful the background.

She does not look connected camera isolated from for about 10 seconds, about 7 minutes into the 10-minute-long video. Court has heard that the female is Khalid. At 1 point, Khan looks straight astatine the camera and calmly says, “She is simply a liar.”

In the video, Khan could beryllium heard accusing Khalid of changing the password connected a slope relationship and stealing money. He tells her she has “blackmailed him and blocked him from the account.”

Khalid denies it and tells Khan it is her money and her account. She besides tells him she has called police.

“You are threatening me,” Khalid is heard saying. “How could I frighten you?” replies Khan, who tells his woman he is signaling her. She replies that she is besides signaling him.

Khalid past tells her hubby to “go record the divorce” and asks him to fto her eat her breakfast. At times, the altercation is inaudible, astatine different times, the mates could beryllium heard speaking successful Urdu.

Khalid could beryllium heard telling her hubby she is connected sick time off and accent time off and that she’s frightened of him.

“Don’t travel adjacent to me, please,” Khalid exclaims.

Khan orders his woman to alteration the password. She tells him she will not.

At this point, Khan and Khalid locomotion into the framework of the camera, and past she is seen trying to locomotion away. Khan pushes her backmost and they some vanish retired of the video framework arsenic Khalid shrieks loudly.

Khan is past heard yelling successful Urdu. According to the translator’s notes, Khan says, “I will termination you. I will hit you today. I will hit you today. (Expletive) (Expletive) (Expletive).”

A statement from the translator successful the transcript indicates that successful Urdu, “maar doomga” means, “I will termination you.” The translator writes, “Some group would sometimes conscionable usage it to mean, ‘I will get you,’ but that is not the literal consciousness of the phrase. The translator reflects strictly what was said, without inferring the intended meaning.”

Khalid is past heard successful English shrieking, “Let maine go. Let maine go.”

Khan replies pinch much expletives earlier being heard saying, “I will not fto you go. I will termination you,” arsenic continued inaudible screaming by some Khalid and Khan could beryllium heard connected camera.

Khan is heard sobbing, saying successful Urdu, “My God, my god, I will termination you.”

Khalid responds successful Urdu, “Don’t do it. Take this.” Khan is past heard saying successful Urdu, “No — you person messed up my life.”

The shrieking continues earlier the video ends.

Crown lawyer Brian Moreira asked Dhoum to explicate what was seen connected the video.

“The video, specifically the audio, captures the sidesplitting by Mr. Khan,” Dhoum replied.

A 911 telephone was besides played successful court, which Dhoum said was received about 1 p.m. connected March 10, 2023, successful which Khan appears to confess to stabbing his wife.

The caller identifies himself arsenic Irfan Khan and says he is astatine 11753 Sheppard Ave. E., Unit 709, earlier the usability asks him to explicate the emergency.

“Emergency is that I had a conflict pinch my woman for so, truthful long, going on, I moreover revenge a constabulary study against her, and I, I killed — I deliberation I killed her conscionable now,” said Khan.

Khan tells the usability that he and his woman were already talking to lawyers about a divorcement and that he had complained to constabulary successful November.

“Right now, I had a conflict pinch him (sic) since, since morning, ’cause she’s accusing stealing each the money and conflict escalated, and I just, I conscionable killed her, I think,” Khan explains.

Khan tells the usability his woman is lying down successful the room of the flat and is not awake aliases breathing. The usability says paramedics are connected the measurement and asks Khan to do CPR.

As Khan could beryllium heard counting aloud, pursuing the directions of the usability to pump connected her chest, he says, “She’s not coming back.”

The usability tells Khan he’s doing a awesome occupation and he replies, “Just-, I, I have-, I just, I just, I conscionable stabbed her.”

At times, Khan could beryllium heard sobbing connected the 911 call. While the audio signaling was played successful court, the accused sat pinch his caput down, his hands clasped against his forehead and, astatine times, shaking his head.

During cross-examination, defence lawyer Tyler Smith asked Dhoum about a 911 telephone made by Khan’s relative astatine 12:28 p.m. connected March 10, 2023.

Smith said that successful the call, Khan’s relative indicated that some his relative and his woman were wounded but didn’t cognize their address, only their telephone numbers.

“Do you cognize if location was a constabulary response?” asked Smith. “Yes, I judge so,” Dhoum replied but explained that they attended a different address.

Smith confirmed that a weapon was seized from the flat and that Khalid was killed by a weapon wound.

A surface drawback from the video recovered connected Khan’s telephone was besides shown. The timepiece publication 11:30 a.m. Dhoum told Smith constabulary judge the sidesplitting happened conscionable minutes aft 11:30 a.m.

Smith past asked Dhoum about the translator’s notes connected the transcript from the video regarding “I will termination you.”

Smith told tribunal that he and his co-counsel, Amy Li, had conscionable learned location was a caller transcription provided successful which the translator noted immoderate group successful Urdu say, “I will termination you,” but it conscionable intends “I will get you.”

Smith told Superior Court Justice Peter Bawden the meaning of “I will termination you” is up for interpretation.

“It’s evident this alteration successful the mentation mightiness beryllium 1 of the about important points of this case. The intelligence authorities of Mr. Khan,” said Smith. On Thursday, defence called those utterances “the main battleground correct now.”

Defence is besides arguing Khan’s charter authorities were breached and is asking that the connection he gave to constabulary connected the nighttime of his apprehension beryllium ruled inadmissible.

Khan was primitively charged pinch second-degree murder, but the charges were later upgraded. The Crown alleges that Khalid was forcibly confined astatine the clip of the killing.

Khan has pleaded not guilty. He tried to plead blameworthy to manslaughter astatine the outset of the proceedings but the Crown rejected that.

The proceedings continues.