(Toronto Star) A jury has found Rehab Dughmosh guilty on four terrorism-related charges, concluding a brief and bizarre trial in which she refused to participate except to admit she tried to join Daesh in Syria and later used a golf club and knife to attack a Scarborough Canadian Tire while shouting “This is for ISIS.”
Jurors saw Dughmosh, 34, refuse to enter a plea or make a defence in her two-day trial — but they were not told she did this for what was described in court as “religious reasons.” They also were not told the trial had such an unusual process because lawyers had needed to devise a way to allow Dughmosh to effectively plead guilty, without actually participating in the trial.
The jury was quickly picked on Wednesday and the same day heard a six-page statement of facts read by the crown and admitted to by Dughmosh. That was the only evidence presented at her trial.
