An Ottawa Police Service cruiser parked in downtown Ottawa in August 2024.
An Ottawa police officer who investigated a report that Hamid Ayoub held a knife to his wife's neck — eight years before he murdered her and stabbed their daughter — told his murder trial she didn't charge him because the complainant didn't want her to, despite the fact that police are obligated to lay charges regardless of what victims want.
Hamid Ayoub, now 63, is standing trial on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the 2021 stabbings of his ex, Mohamed, and their 22-year-old daughter. Last week, the jury heard that in 2013, the couple's daughter saw Ayoub standing behind her mother and holding a knife to her throat after Mohamed screamed to her children for help. It was one in a series of acts of abuse Ayoub inflicted on Mohamed that the children had witnessed.
McMullan agreed with Abou El Hassan that police are actually duty bound to lay charges in domestic violence cases if they have reasonable grounds, regardless of whether the complainant wants police to lay charges or not. Neither the children nor Ayoub were brought in for an interview. When McMullan spoke to Mohamed 10 days later, Mohamed said she was safe, happy and unafraid, the jury heard.Years later, on May 19, 2021, about a month before the stabbings, Mohamed called police after Ayoub approached her in the parking lot of a shopping plaza close to her home. She had left him about nine months earlier.
"He answered, and I quote, 'You left the house, you took the kids,'" Nash told the jury. Ayoub also told Mohamed he knew where she lived.
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