Preliminary listening to set to happen at Barrie courthouse; former boyfriend Mohamad Lilo searching for bail
Accused assassin Mohamad Lilo is again in court docket immediately in Barrie for a preliminary listening to for charges regarding the kidnapping and presumed killing of Elnaz Hajtamiri.
The Richmond Hill resident was kidnapped from a member of the family’s home in Wasaga Seashore in January 2022 and has not been seen or heard from since. Police imagine she is lifeless.
Lilo, her 37-year-old former boyfriend, is accused of being the ringleader of a gaggle that participated in her adduction and homicide.
Hajtamiri was assaulted within the parking storage of her Richmond Hill residence a couple of month earlier than being taken in Wasaga Seashore and Lilo additionally faces charges stemming from that incident.
Hajtamiri, who was 37 on the time of her disappearance, had fled to Wasaga Seashore for cover, however was kidnapped by three males wearing quasi-police gear who fled in a white Lexus.
The case has seen as much as a dozen individuals charged associated to both the Richmond Hill assault, her Wasaga Seashore abduction or a stolen-vehicle ring related to the case. On the time of his arrest, Lilo had a delivery container enterprise that will have been concerned within the abroad transportation of stolen automobiles.
A number of the accused have had their circumstances resolved by means of fast responsible pleas and subsequent deportations.
One of many accused, Adams Ankamah, of Brampton, had kidnapping charges withdrawn in a Collingwood court docket final week. The Crown additionally stayed a weapons cost in opposition to Ankamah.
One other of these charged, Deshawn Davis, who’s suspected of being considered one of Hajtamiri’s three abductors, was arrested in California earlier this 12 months. Davis can also be suspected of being concerned in a homicide in Miami. His arrest on these charges within the U.S. – he was on most needed lists on each side of the border on the time – has raised the spectre of Lilo’s case being affected by American justice having first crack at Davis.
Lilo was arrested a bit greater than per week after Hajtamiri’s disappearance on lesser charges. First-degree homicide, adduction and assault charges adopted, and he has been in jail for greater than two years.
The costs haven’t been examined in court docket.
Lilo was additionally in court docket final week making an attempt to get bail below strict house-arrest situations. Justice Cary Boswell has reserved his choice. Lilo’s lawyer, Anthony Bryant, proposed that his shopper put on an ankle monitor and that his mother and father put up a portion of their Quebec Metropolis-area residence as a part of the bail to make sure his compliance.
Bryant has raised points about Crown disclosure within the case.
Lilo is at the moment being held at Central North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene.
