Overview

• Brothers Minh Huynh and Chanh Hyunh recounted how their mother controlled, scolded and physically disciplined Chau and Hue over decades of alleged abuse.
• In police interviews, Hue Ai Lam admitted she struck her sleeping mother with a hammer before handing the weapon to her sister, Chau.
• The Crown argues the sisters planned for days and then killed their defenceless mother by bludgeoning her head and strangling her on Oct. 31, 2022.
• Defence counsel maintains that Chau and Hue Lam were driven to murder by a prolonged campaign of violence that intensified after Hue developed Parkinson’s disease.
• Jurors reviewed a note from Hue, characterized by her brother as a suicide note, in which she thanked her sister and expressed exhaustion from her illness.