Three Guilty In Murder Of Pot Growers

HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Three Guilty In Murder Of Pot Growers
Pubdate: Fri, 23 Dec 2005
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://torontosun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Tracy McLaughlin
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

THREE GUILTY IN MURDER OF POT GROWERS

BARRIE -- After almost a week of deliberations, a jury found three men
guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a Vietnamese couple who
were shot and clubbed to death on a desolate road near the Barrie
Drive-Inn three years ago.

Tung Duong, 38, of Mississauga, Ibrahim Yumnu, 48, of Wasaga Beach,
Vinicio Cardoso, 39, of Toronto, were found guilty in the killings of
Bong Bui and her husband, Dung Ton, following a nine-month murder trial.

The bodies were found by a student truck driver who was practising
turns on a cul-de-sac May 24, 2002. They had been shot and beaten to
death in a field on Hollick Cres. off the 4th line in
Oro-Medonte.

Co-accused Bruce Glen, 38, of Caledon and Genevieve Ward, 45, of
Wasaga Beach, were found not guilty.

Justice Alfred Stong will pass sentence on Jan. 13.

HIRED THUGS

Throughout the trial the jury heard how hired thugs hid in the bushes
while the couple were lured by a close friend, Minh Dang, to the
desolate area. The assailants then came out shooting as Dang watched
in horror.

The killers dragged the wounded couple into the field and clubbed them
to death with a rock, leaving their faces beaten beyond
recognition.

Dang wept on the witness stand, recalling how her good friend offered
her the fur coat she was wearing because she was shivering in the back
seat just before the murder.

"I thought they were just going to be beat up," she testified. "I
didn't know they would be killed."

Dang, a prostitute, had sex with both Ton and Duong. Duong asked Dang
to lure the couple to the trap because he was angry when Ton tried to
cheat him out of profit from their marijuana growing operation in a
Mississauga house.
- ---
MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin