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VANCOUVER - Charles Kembo was led off to begin serving life in prison without parole eligibility for 25 years - convicted of four first-degree murders. “You are a serial killer,” BC Supreme Court Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein said in a searing sentencing after the jury returned its verdict after nearly four days of deliberation. (Vancouver Sun) MORE: Kembo found guilty Guilty verdict
VANCOUVER - A prosecutor played tapes of Charles Kembo chuckling and having a casual conversation with his girlfriend a day after he claims he and his stepdaughter, whom he allegedly murdered, were attacked by a gang of extortionists. (Vancouver Province) MORE: Battle of wits
VANCOUVER - Accused serial killer Charles Kembo remained unruffled under withering cross-examination Monday as the prosecution insisted he was a manipulative liar. In a testy day of tough questioning in BC Supreme Court, Kembo repeated he was no murderer as the Crown hammered his credibility and labelled his explanations unbelievable. (Vancouver Sun) MORE: Lied on advice of lawyer Opening defence
VANCOUVER - Seven months before Rita Yeung was murdered, she cried as she told police she felt abandoned by her missing mother, a murder trial was told Friday. Yeung was upset that her mother, Margaret Kembo, had left home without saying goodbye and hadn't bothered to call her daughter, recalled RCMP Sgt. Joe Sobotin. (Vancouver Sun) |
VANCOUVER - The former common-law wife of a man accused of killing four people broke into tears while recalling one of the alleged murder victims. (Vancouver Sun)
VANCOUVER - The trial of Charles Kembo has now heard details of a bizarre scheme in which the accused killer allegedly offered an inmate up to $150,000 to help get Kembo out of jail. (Vancouver Province)
VANCOUVER - The day Charles Kembo was arrested for two murders, police seized a calendar with notation that said "RY plan" that allegedly was a reference to the latest of four murder victims, a trial heard Wednesday. At the time of Kembo's arrest on July 29, 2005, police had found two days earlier the body of Kembo's stepdaughter, Rita Yeung, 20. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Video of crime scene
VANCOUVER - It's alleged that the killing of Kembo's 21-year-old step-daughter, Rita Yeung, in July 2005 occurred at the same time that police were tapping the suspect's phone, had audio-surveillance in his apartment and also a GPS tracking device and audio bug in his vehicle. It was the listening device in Kembo's car that prosecutors say caught the sounds of Yeung's murder. (CBC)
VANCOUVER - The trial of accused killer Charles Kembo on Monday heard from a police officer who found the body of Kembo’s stepdaughter Rita Yeung with the help of a GPS tracking device. (Vancouver Province) |
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RITA YEUNG, MARGARET KEMBO On July 29th 2005 IHIT arrested Charles Kembo, also known as Charles Matthew Gwazah, 37, for the murder of Rita Yeung, 21. The murder took place on July 24th 2005, her remains were recovered July 27th in Richmond. Kembo is also charged with the October 2002 murder of his wife, Margaret Kembo, 44, Richmond, the biological mother of Rita Yeung. Police are still trying to locate the remains of Margaret Kembo. July 24, 2005 |
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SIU YIN MA (aka: Elvie Ma) IHIT in partnership with Richmond Serious Crime Unit has identified the human remains discovered November 5, 2004 in a slough on Rice Mill Road in Richmond. The remains were forensically identified as Siu Yin MA ( aka: Elvie MA). MA was a 45 year old Asian female who resided in Ladner. Charles Kembo has been charged with her murder. IHIT File #2004-139889 Nov. 5, 2004 |
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ARDEN SAMUEL Vancouver resident Arden Samuel, 38 was the business partner of Charles Kembo. Charles Kembo stood to gain $800,000 from a life insurance policy taken out on Arden Samuel, who was found strangled to death on Nov. 5, 2003, in Vancouver's Quilchena Park with his penis cut off and stuffed into his pants with four notes. The benefactor on Samuel's life insurance policy was Kembo's son Grant, a toddler at the time of the killing. Nov. 5, 2003 |
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