Montreal-area triple homicide trial: Jury delivers guilty verdicts [Video]

The accused in a triple homicide trial south of Montreal has been found guilty.

The jury reached the verdict Monday morning after deliberations began on Saturday. 

The accused is a woman named Levana Ballouz, who was known as Mohamad Al Ballouz when the deaths occurred in September 2022.

Synthia Bussieres and her two sons, aged two and five, were killed in September 2022. (Court handout)

The accused was found guilty of one count of second-degree murder in the death of her spouse, 38-year-old Synthia Bussieres, and two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her two children, five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac.

Ballouz nodded as the verdict was read in court.

Bussieres’s mother, Sylvie Guertin, held her partner’s hand in the courtroom.

“We’ve been impatiently waiting for this day,” she said outside of court. “We were wondering this morning if there would be more delays … but for my daughter … justice has finally been served.”

First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with …