Overview

• Sisters Chau Lam and Hue Lam face first-degree murder charges in the death of their 88-year-old mother and have pleaded not guilty despite recorded admissions.
• Prosecutors played videotaped interviews from hours after the October 31, 2022 death in which each sister detailed attacking their mother as she slept.
• In the footage, the women said they used a hammer and then strangled Kieu Lam with a piece of curtain string.
• Both defence and Crown highlighted the sisters’ accounts of decades of verbal and physical abuse worsened by Kieu Lam’s fall and noted Hue Lam’s Parkinson’s diagnosis and subsequent job loss.
• The trial is set to resume Thursday morning after lawyers review two reports submitted by the defence.