The story of an Ontario girl who was discovered to have employed hitmen to homicide her mother and father is now the topic of a brand new Netflix documentary.
The girl, Jennifer Pan, was convicted of first-degree homicide and tried homicide in reference to a 2010 incident at her Markham residence that left her mom useless and her father significantly injured.
She was sentenced to life in jail with no parole for 25 years again in 2015.
Now, a brand new documentary titled ‘What Jennifer Did’ has been picked up by Netflix.
The feature-length documentary was added to Netflix in Canada on Wednesday. It examines the early years of Jennifer’s life, her love life that was intertwined along with her alleged crimes and the occasion’s main as much as her mom’s homicide.
It additionally gives perception into three co-accused who had been concerned within the case and convicted on the identical expenses. They embrace Daniel Wong, her boyfriend on the time of conviction, and the 2 hitmen she employed – Lenford Crawford and David Mylvaganam.
In the course of the trial, prosecutors stated that Wong and Crawford acted as middlemen for Jennifer regardless of not being on the Pan residence in the course of the invasion. One other man, whose case proceeded individually, pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit homicide and was sentenced to 18 years.
The Crown stated that Jennifer began plotting her mother and father’ homicide after they compelled her to decide on between them and Wong. The ultimatum got here after discovering out that Pan had lied about her life for years, together with lies about graduating each highschool and college, volunteer expertise and her profession.
A girl accused within the killing of her mom and tried homicide of father throughout an obvious residence theft in November 2010 testified at her trial on Tuesday (CTV Toronto/John Mantha)
Regardless of shifting residence after the ultimatum, Pan continued to have a making an attempt relationship along with her mother and father. It was round that point, at 24-years-old, that she employed hitmen to go ahead with the tried murders.
CONVICTED TO GET RE-TRIAL, FIRST DEGREE MURDER CHARGES WILL HOLD
The documentary comes after a brand new growth to the case introduced final 12 months. In Could 2023, the Ontario Courtroom of Enchantment ordered a re-trial for the 4 accused on account of a error by the trial decide in not additionally allowing the jury to contemplate manslaughter within the case.
The 2 eventualities supplied by the trial decide included one during which Pan’s plan was to homicide every of her mother and father. The second state of affairs urged that the plan was to stage a house invasion resulting in her mother and father being shot.
In accordance with the attraction court docket, the trial decide ought to have given the jury second-degree homicide and manslaughter as choices for the jury to contemplate.
All appeals on the tried homicide convictions had been dismissed by the court docket.
Stephanie DiGiuseppe, a lawyer that represented Pan within the attraction, informed CTV Information Toronto that the scheduling for the re-trial has been quickly placed on maintain.
“Whereas no dates have but been set, we count on the Supreme Courtroom listening to to happen in late 2024 or early 2025,” she wrote in an e mail.
A cross-appeal to the Supreme Courtroom of Canada has been requested, in addition to a Crown attraction. The scheduling of the re-trial is dependent upon these outcomes.
-With recordsdata from the Canadian Press
