{"id":49711,"date":"2024-04-17T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T08:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2025819"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:25:34","slug":"what-is-happening-with-the-jennifer-pan-retrial","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-is-happening-with-the-jennifer-pan-retrial\/","title":{"rendered":"What is happening with the Jennifer Pan retrial?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Netflix documentary exploring the case of Jennifer Pan ends on an unexpected note. <\/p>

By Molly Moss\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 17 April 2024 at 08:29 AM<\/p>

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On 8th November 2010, three armed men broke into the home of Bich Ha Pan and Heui Hann Pan in what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The crooks ransacked the Ontario house, waking the couple up and demanding all their money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They then tied their daughter Jennifer Pan up, took her parents into their basement \u2013 shot them \u2013 and fled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the version of events that Pan presented to the police when she dialled emergency services, but law enforcement soon began to suspect that Pan knew more than she was letting on.<\/p>\n

The 2010 case is being explored in the new Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did<\/a>, which comes from American Murder filmmaker Jenny Popplewell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viewers who\u2019ve reached the end of the documentary will have noticed it concludes with a surprising revelation: Pan, along with three other individuals jailed in the case, Daniel Wong, <\/span>Lenford Crawford and David Mylvaganam,<\/span> were granted a retrial by the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the first-degree murder of Pan\u2019s mother, Bich Ha Pan.<\/p>\n

With no explanation given for this decision in What Jennifer Did, read on for everything we currently know about the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is Jennifer Pan getting a retrial?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pan was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after she <\/span>was <\/span>found guilty of both first-degree murder and attempted murder<\/span><\/a>, without the possibility of parole for 25 years. She has always maintained her innocence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her co-conspirators \u2013 Wong, <\/span>Crawford and Mylvaganam<\/span> \u2013 received the same sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

In May 2023, however, the Ontario Appeal Court ordered a retrial<\/a> for all four defendants on the first-degree murder charge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their lawyers argued that the original judge had <\/strong>wrongfully presented just two plausible scenarios for the attack,<\/strong> preventing the jury from considering other verdicts such as second-degree murder or manslaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it should be noted that\u00a0the attempted murder charge of Pan\u2019s father was upheld.<\/span><\/p>\n

The court said in its decision<\/a><\/span>: \u201cIn this case, the jury might have had a doubt about the planned and deliberate murder of Pan\u2019s mother but be satisfied that the appellants knew that the murder of Pan\u2019s mother was a probable consequence of a plan to kill her father. This could give rise to a conviction for second-degree murder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was also possible for the jury to have had a doubt about the planned and deliberate murder of Pan\u2019s mother but to have been satisfied that there was a reasonably foreseeable risk of non-trivial bodily harm to Pan\u2019s mother through the implementation of the plan to kill Pan\u2019s father, such that a conviction for manslaughter would arise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n