Sentencing Friday for Quebecer convicted of killing spouse, two children [Video]

A Quebecer convicted this week in a triple domestic murder that left a woman and her two young children dead in a Montreal suburb will be sentenced at the end of this week, a Superior Court justice decided Wednesday.

Mohamad Al Ballouz was found guilty by a jury Monday of the second-degree murder of Synthia Bussières and the first-degree murder of their two sons, five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac.

Al Ballouz, who was Bussières’ husband at the time of the September 2022 killings but now identifies as a woman and goes by the name Levana, was also convicted of arson for setting the family condo in Brossard, Que., on fire.

The trial heard Bussières, 38, was stabbed 23 times and the boys were then killed before Al Ballouz consumed wiper fluid and set the fire to destroy evidence. He had removed the batteries from the smoke detectors in the unit. …