VIDEO Life in Prison for Toronto Man Who Killed Tecumseh Woman

A Toronto man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 14 years after pleading guilty to killing his wife from Tecumseh. 

Mohammed Shamji, 43, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Dr. Elana Fric-Shamiji and Justice John McMahon approved of a joint submission by the Crown and his defence lawyer, who asked for parole eligibility to be set at 14 years.

"This is an extremely tragic case," McMahon told the court. "Three young children have lost their mother forever."

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Ana Fric says her daughter endured more than a decade of domestic abuse at the hands of Shamji.

Fric adds Shamji had physically and sexually assaulted her daughter, and also had extra marital affairs. She adds that she learned of the abuse after the birth of the couple's first child, her grandchild, when her daughter told her Shamji had assaulted her, threatened her life and the life of her baby.

During the 12 years the abuse continued, Fric says she repeatedly urged her daughter to leave the marriage, but she refused to do so.

"He was never a husband, nerver, never a father," says Ana Fric. "Elana was a great person that any parents wish to have, she was kind and she was generous."

In 2016, Fric-Shamji, a respected family doctor, eventually decided to divorce her neurosurgeon husband.

Court heard that Shamji attacked his 40-year-old wife two days after she served him with divorce papers, breaking her neck and ribs and choking her to death as their three children slept nearby.

It was loud enough to wake their 11-year-old daughter. The child went to her parents' room to investigate, but Shamji ordered her back to her bedroom, court heard.

He then stuffed Fric-Shamji's body into a suitcase, drove 35 kilometres north of the city and dumped it into the Humber River.

A passerby found the suitcase the next day after she was last seen on Nov. 30, 2016, and police arrested Shamji 24 hours later.

The couple's three children — 14-year-old Yasmin, her 11-year-old sister Faiza and their five-year-old brother Marius — have lived with their maternal grandparents in Tecumseh since their North York home became a crime scene.

Yasmin says the last two years have been an emotional rollercoaster.

"Oh hatred, I hate him, honestly," says Shamji. "I'm angry, I'm moreso scared and sad than angry as well, it's like a mix of emotions."

Yasmin admits she was aware of the abuse but didn't think it would come to this. 

"It never came across my mind that she would get hurt like that," admits Yasmin. "I always thought that they would always pull through and eventually make up for the fights but it would never cross my mind that he would hurt her that severely."

"I thought it was natural at first but when I heard about other kids with their parents and how they were happy, and yeah they had their fights but it sucks that my family was fighting and dysfunctional," adds Yasmin.

One day before they learned their son-in-law’s fate, Ana and Josip Fric described their regret, saying they wished they did more to encourage their daughter to leave the abusive relationship.

“As the cold blooded killer that he is… The way he killed my daughter, I could not recognize her,” Ana Fric said.  “He didn’t kill her, he massacred her.”

Justice McMahon says the case is yet another tragic instance of domestic homicide that he sees far too often.