{
 "id": "001",
 "offence": "hiring a \"hitman\" (an undercover police officer) to kill a spouse",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "years": "2010 / 2014",
 "story": [
  "Each of them wanted their spouse dead and hired a hitman to do it. Both times the \"hitman\" was an undercover police officer. Both cases are from Ontario.",
  "He put up the money to have his wife killed. The motive, according to the court, was to avoid paying in the divorce. Sentence: 6 years.",
  "She gave the \"hitman\" a down payment, photos and her husband's daily routine, and told him to shoot her husband. The officer gave her a phone number so she could change her mind; at the second meeting she confirmed the order. The Crown itself asked for 3–4 years for her. Sentence: 3.5 years."
 ],
 "male": {
  "case": "R. v. Terpstra",
  "citation": "2011 ONCA 500",
  "court": "Court of Appeal for Ontario; sentence imposed by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, jury, 28.06.2010",
  "date": "2011-07-05",
  "charge": "counselling murder and conspiracy to murder his wife",
  "outcome": "convicted",
  "sentence": "6 years",
  "facts": "A joint plan to hire a hitman; the hitman was an undercover police officer. Motive: avoid paying in the divorce; he supplied the money (paras. 1, 4).",
  "source": "https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2011/2011onca500/2011onca500.html"
 },
 "female": {
  "case": "R. v. Tokhi",
  "citation": "2014 ONSC 3142",
  "court": "Ontario Superior Court of Justice, judge alone; conviction — 2014 ONSC 1220",
  "date": "2014-06-10",
  "charge": "counselling the murder of her husband",
  "outcome": "convicted",
  "sentence": "3.5 years",
  "facts": "Hired a hitman who was an undercover police officer; down payment, photos, her husband's routine, told him to shoot; confirmed the order at the second meeting. The Crown asked for 3–4 years (paras. 2, 3, 7).",
  "source": "https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2014/2014onsc3142/2014onsc3142.html",
  "conviction": "https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2014/2014onsc1220/2014onsc1220.html"
 },
 "law": [
  "Criminal Code s. 718.2(b)",
  "Charter s. 15",
  "Charter s. 28"
 ],
 "after": "He appealed his sentence; the Court of Appeal for Ontario upheld the 6 years. No appeal decision in her case is on CanLII (checked 17.10.2026).",
 "after_source": "https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2011/2011onca500/2011onca500.html",
 "added": "2026-10-17"
}