Sina Parsi was ‘everything to me’ says grieving widow after his suspected killers collared
Posted June 23, 2015 4:33 pm.
Last Updated June 23, 2015 9:35 pm.
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After nearly five years of marriage, Sina Parsi and his wife, Roya, were planning to start a family. Instead, she was left to plan his funeral after the Vaughan man’s lifeless body was found in an apartment in the Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue area on June 12, three days after he vanished.
The grieving widow spoke publicly for the first time on Tuesday at a Toronto courthouse, where the couple accused in his murder made brief court appearances and were remanded in custody.
Clyde Marshall, 36, and Sabrina Chouart, 27, were arrested around 9:30 p.m. on Monday at a Walmart in Niagara Falls after shoppers recognized the couple and contacted local authorities.
“Sina was a wonderful man, he was caring,” Roya Parsi said, choking back tears. “He was the love of my life. He was my best friend, he was everything to me.”
She also expressed relief that the suspects had been collared.
“After two weeks of being worried and so frustrated it’s very good news.”
The family’s lawyer, Geoffrey Pollock, said Parsi came to Canada at the age of 18, eventually owning his own construction firm.
The 32-year-old was living “the Canadian dream,” Pollock said.
That dream was buried along with Parsi on Saturday — the day before Father’s Day.
The cruel timing of his funeral didn’t elude Pollock.
“Sina and Roya had talked about starting a family,” he said outside the courthouse. “It had been their intention on starting a family in the near future. And burying Sina one day before Father’s Day was so challenging.”
The couple both loved soccer, Pollock added, and the family plans to establish a fund to help disadvantaged youth participate in the game.
Parsi was last seen alive leaving a soccer game in the area of Teston Road and Highway 400 at around 11:20 p.m. on Tuesday.
His body was found three days later and the manhunt for the suspects was on.
With the suspects at large police released surveillance video that showed Parsi entering the west-end apartment complex, seemingly willingly, with the two people now accused of killing him.
