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Pan, right, and her four alleged accomplices are charged with first-degree murder in the death of her mother, 53-year-old Bieh Ha Pan, and attempted murder of her father, Huei Hann Pan.
A 24-year-old Markham woman Jennifer Pan has been charged with murder in connection with a home invasion where her mother Bieh Ha Pan, 53, was fatally shot and her father, Huei Hann Pan, was seriously injured in their home.
http://o.canada.com/news/crown-outl...accused-of-mothers-murder-wounding-of-father/NEWMARKET, Ont. – What seemed on the surface a violent home invasion that saw a woman killed and a man left for dead was in fact a bitter daughter’s revenge upon her parents, an Ontario Superior Court jury heard
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The stunning story behind what really happened on Nov. 8, 2010 in a quiet Markham, Ont., subdivision emerged as Crown prosecutor Jennifer Halajian made her opening statement in the trial of Jennifer Pan, now 27, and four men, including Pan’s former boyfriend, each of whom Halajian said had a part in the murder plan.
Charged with Pan with first-degree murder in the death of her mother, 53-year-old Bich Ha Pan, and attempted murder in the wounding of her father, Huei Hann Pan, are David Mylvaganam, Eric Carty, Lenford Crawford and Daniel Wong, once the love of Pan’s life.
All are pleading not guilty in a trial that is expected to last months.
Other people were involved,” Halajian told the jurors.
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She gestured behind her to the prisoners’ box, where the accused quintet sat. “Not all three of those men” who entered the house on the night of the crime are in that box, she said, but the five on trial “knowingly participated in the murder. It doesn’t mean they all pulled the trigger — they didn’t.”
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As with so many criminal cases involving those under 30, the evidence will consist of reams of cellphone texts and calls — Pan and Wong communicated compulsively — as well as banking records and the like.
But at the heart of the plot, the prosecutor said again and again, is the tall, slim young woman with the long hair.
Halajian began her opening by playing an excerpt of a dramatic 911 call Pan made
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On it, she sounded hysterical, incoherent. She could hardly give the operator her address. In the background, at one point, a man, presumably her father, could be heard screaming. Pan told the operator three men had entered the house; they had guns, were demanding money. She said they had tied her up on the second floor,
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“I can hear pops,” she cried once on the tape. “Gunshots!
“I don’t know what’s going on,” she whimpered.
But, according to the prosecutor, Pan knew precisely what was unfolding, and had been working toward this moment for months — “game time,” as one of her alleged conspirators called it. She is alleged to have left the front door open for the attackers.
Not only was Pan not tied up, the prosecutor said, but she also wandered freely about the house as her parents were being terrorized.
And that information, Halajian said, will come from her father.
He will describe his “19 harrowing minutes,” and say that at least twice, he saw his only daughter quietly talking to one or another of the intruders.
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He awoke to a man holding a gun to his face, and was eventually ordered to the basement.
There, the prosecutor said he will testify, a blanket was thrown over his head and he was shot in the face, and passed out.
When he came to, he saw his wife on the floor, dead, and managed to flee
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He was shot twice, once in the right shoulder, once in the right eye. That bullet shattered, and he spent three days in a coma at hospital.
Pan’s mother was shot three times — once in the back of her shoulder, once at the base of the head, and, the fatal shot, execution-style at the back of the head.
She was pronounced dead on the basement floor of her own home, where she had been soaking her feet after a regular night out to line-dance
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That was such an evocative detail: The Pans had come to Canada as refugees from Vietnam, though they were originally from Hong Kong, and they had so successfully made a life for themselves here that the mother line-danced every Monday night.
Arriving with nothing, Halajian said, they worked hard and long, had two children, Jennifer and Felix, and by that fall, were sitting pretty: They had paid off their house; had money in the bank, including life insurance policies and two luxury cars.
Felix, then 21, was off at McMaster University in Hamilton, on his way to getting a mechanical engineering degree; Jennifer, then 24, was working to get the hours she needed to complete the requirement for her pharmacy degree.
Or, at least, that’s what she told her family: First, they believed she attended Ryerson University, and then the University of Toronto for pharmacy. Felix and his parents had even seen her degree; she’d been unable, she told them, to get tickets for them to attend the actual graduation.
In fact, as Halajian told Judge Cary Boswell and the jurors, Pan “wasn’t a pharmacist. She never studied. She never attended university.”
It was all a tissue of lies: All those years, she had been busy with Wong, for a time even living with his family in Ajax, Ont., while telling her family she was sharing a flat with a classmate.
Finally, her parents found out she had a boyfriend and had been lying to them; her dad ordered her home and told her to choose — Wong, or her family. Her dad told her
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“Until they were dead, she would never be with Daniel.”
But she saw Wong on the sly, and when he tried to break it off, telling her he had a new girl, she lied to him too — told him she’d been raped by strangers, that someone had sent her a bullet in the mail.
“Jennifer was determined to get her way, no matter what,” Halajian said
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The proof came later in the day, as Felix Pan, as tall and slender as his sister, was called to the witness stand.
She sought his eyes; he steadfastly averted his gaze. And at one point, he in the witness stand, she in the prisoner’s box, he was near tears, and she was weeping.
Family of Daniel Wong, the then boyfriend and co-accused of Jennifer Pan, in the staged home invasion murder of Pan’s father, hide their faces as they leave Newmarket court, March 19, 2014.
Jennifer Pan, rear, carries incense at her mother's funeral in November 2010.