ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/0313-butcher
"In her short life, Janveau had more than her fair share of hardship — and that was before she met Farhan. Her parents divorced when she was nine, her mother killed herself at Christmas, she had a partially paralyzed leg, a crippled arm and a drug habit.
In all of this, Janveau was described by family and friends as generous and loving.
Janveau had only been with Farhan for a year. It was a volatile relationship that ended in murder.
Some nights Farhan left her bruised. Other nights Farhan threatened to kill her, according to witness testimony at trial.
In her final moments of life, Farhan subjected her to an uncontrollable, cocaine-fuelled rage. Farhan attacked her and then killed her.
She lay dead in their basement apartment for days and when the smell became impossible to ignore — neighbours were complaining — Farhan started cutting up the body with a kitchen knife because he figured it would be easier to get rid of it in pieces. It took him two hours to cut up the corpse in the bathtub. (He showed no emotion as he detailed the gruesome deed on the stand at trial.) An autopsy confirmed that Farhan also stabbed her multiple times after she was dead."
"One of the first Gatineau police officers on the grisly scene was Sgt. Guylaine Larose, who stared at the bloody, decomposed body long enough for it to haunt. She was looking at what was left of her younger sister.
In an interview with the Citizen after the trial, Sgt. Larose said her sister’s murder haunted her day and night.
She later killed herself with a service revolver at home."
""Farhan, now 46 and legally named Zahra Farhan, was placed in solitary confinement [in men's prison] at her own request after she expressed a fear for her life because she identified as a trans woman. Farhan had no problems after being transferred to a women’s prison."