Shafia family may have stopped at another body of water

Mohammad Shafia steps out from the police van at the Frontenac county courthouse in Kingston, Ont., on Monday Nov. 21, 2011. (Lars Hagberg / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Mohammad Shafia steps out from the police van at the Frontenac county courthouse in Kingston, Ont., on Monday Nov. 21, 2011. (Lars Hagberg / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

KINGSTON, Ont. — Court is hearing that a Montreal family who took a trip to Ontario that ended in four of them being found dead in a canal may have first stopped at another body of water.

A police officer who analyzed cellphone calls testified today that the family travelled several hundred kilometres past Montreal to Grand-Remous, Que., then 165 kilometres south to Ottawa, instead of going straight there.

The parents in the Shafia family as well as their teenage son are accused of killing three teenage sisters and Shafia's other wife in a polygamous marriage.

The murder trial has heard searches were done weeks before the deaths on a laptop used by the son for bodies of water, including Grand-Remous, in addition to searches on "where to commit a murder."

The bodies of Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, were found in a car submerged at the bottom of a canal in Kingston, Ont., in June 2009.

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