Matthew Forest gets 7 years in prison for participating in Maqsood Ahmed killing
Meghan Grant | CBC News | Posted: October 19, 2016 8:32 PM | Last Updated: October 19, 2016
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Matthew Forest has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the death of Maqsood Ahmed, stabbed to death outside his store across from Westwinds police headquarters in 2014.
Forest, 22, pleaded guilty to robbery and accessory after the fact to murder earlier this year. Ahmed, 55, was stabbed to death on Westwinds Drive N.E.
A publication ban prevents the details of the crime and the guilty pleas from being reported until after a second-degree murder trial for two other men accused in Ahmed's death, Jean Bertrand Havyarimana and Lloyd Kollie, scheduled for January.
Justice Richard Neufeld sentenced Forest to six years for the robbery conviction and one year in prison for the accessory charge, to be served consecutively.
Ahmed, who owned a produce market in the northeast, was attacked while carrying a money bag as he was leaving his business. After his death, Ahmed's sons continued to work at the family business.
Forest was also ordered to pay the Ahmed family $20,000 and is not allowed to have contact with the other men facing charges in connection to the killing.
Investigators have said they believe it was a case of a robbery that went wrong.
Forest is already serving 20-month sentence for a robbery that occurred before Ahmed was killed.
No members of the victim's family were in court.
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