Jury convicts Burns and Rafay in family's killing

[flamingyouth]

A King County Superior Court jury on Wednesday found Glen Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay guilty of killing Rafay's parents and sister in Bellevue in 1994.

Following a six-month trial, each was convicted on three counts of aggravated first-degree murder, concluding a legal odyssey that began when the pair fled to Canada two days after reporting the deaths.

Because prosecutors agreed not to seed the death penalty in exchange for their extradition from Canada, they face life in prison without parole -- the only other possible sentence for an aggravated murder conviction.

Tariq and Sultana Rafay and their 20-year-old daughter, Basma, were beaten to death with baseball bats in their Bellevue home on July 12, 1994. Prosecutors said Burns and Rafay did it for money: The two were arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia, in August 1995, the same month that the family estate, valued at about $300,000, was turned over to Rafay.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/175073_Rafay26ww.html

FINALLY!

[Howardx]

1. finally!

former bellevue resident here.