OTTAWA, June 16 The father and brother of a 16-year-old girl pleaded guilty in a Toronto courthouse to her 2007 murder for disobeying him, including refusing to wear a hijab, a court official said on Wednesday.

Toronto taxi-driver Mohammad Parvez, 60, and tow-truck driver Waqas Parvez, 29, pleaded guilty to the murder of Aqsa Parvez in late 2007, and are to be sentenced to life in prison. They must serve at least 18 years in prison before being eligible for parole, an Ontario Court official said.

According to a statement of agreed facts, Aqsa was estranged from her family when her brother picked her up from a school bus stop in a Toronto suburb and took her home on Dec 10, 2007. There, her father strangled her to death. “I killed my daughter,” he told a 911 operator, said court documents.

Paramedics found her lying dead in her bed, blood running from her nose.

Mohammad's wife, Anwar Jan, told police he had killed their youngest of eight children over her delinquent behaviour.—AFP