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In her short life, Janveau had more than her fair share of hardship — and that was before she met Farhan. Her parents divorced when she was nine, her mother killed herself at Christmas, she had a partially paralyzed leg, a crippled arm and a drug habit.

In all of this, Janveau was described by family and friends as generous and loving.

Janveau had only been with Farhan for a year. It was a volatile relationship that ended in murder.

Some nights Farhan left her bruised. Other nights Farhan threatened to kill her, according to witness testimony at trial.

In her final moments of life, Farhan subjected her to an uncontrollable, cocaine-fuelled rage. Farhan attacked her and then killed her.

She lay dead in their basement apartment for days and when the smell became impossible to ignore — neighbours were complaining — Farhan started cutting up the body with a kitchen knife because he figured it would be easier to get rid of it in pieces. It took him two hours to cut up the corpse in the bathtub. (He showed no emotion as he detailed the gruesome deed on the stand at trial.) An autopsy confirmed that Farhan also stabbed her multiple times after she was dead.

To conceal the crime, Farhan tossed half of the corpse and the right arm in a dumpster a few metres from their basement apartment. Farhan stuffed the other half of the body in a duffel bag and dumped it a few hundred metres away in a field by railway tracks off Maloney Boulevard in Gatineau, where Farhan had moved two months earlier from Ottawa.