Quebec killer convicted of murdering family, will not appeal guilty verdict – Montreal [Video]

A Brossard, Que., resident who was found guilty of killing her family in 2022, will not appeal the guilty verdict.

Mohamad Al Ballouz, who now identifies as a woman and goes by Levana Ballouz, was sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years.

A jury found Ballouz guilty on Dec. 16, 2024, of fatally stabbing her partner Synthia Bussières and their two sons, five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac, in 2022.

In an email to Global News, the Crown says the date for the appeal has expired, though it’s still possible to apply for an extension of the deadline.

However, it has yet to receive such a request.

In his sentencing decision at the courthouse in Longueuil, Que., in December, Quebec Superior Justice Eric Downs said the court considered the “extreme violence” and brutal manner in which Bussières was repeatedly stabbed — a killing he described as a “femicide” and illustrative of “the sadistic character of the …