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Published 12:32 08 Jul 2026 GMT
A Canadian father who allegedly murdered his two sons before ending his own life left his ex-wife a chilling email before dying.
On the morning of June 29, police discovered the bodies of two boys, aged seven and 12, while conducting a welfare check in the Kemptville area of Ottawa, Canada.
The late boys' mother said that her ex-husband, Mohammad Al-Lami, 40, allegedly sent her a slew of threatening emails that contained murderous threats and claims that he would leave her disabled.
She told cops that he also stopped child support payments prior to his death.
Ottawa Police Service found Al-Lami's body in a burned-out vehicle in Kemptville on the morning of June 29, as he left behind a multi-page handwritten note criticizing the family court system.
He mentioned three people by name in this note, causing police to rush and check that they were all safe.
Email correspondence obtained by CBC News revealed that Al-Lami allegedly made the following threat before the suspected murder-suicide.
"I will kill everyone around you and your pimp ... in a very wild and savage way. I won't kill you. I will leave you alone, disabled in a wheelchair that you can't move, even to visit your loved ones' graves," the horrifying email read.
Authorities also linked him with a fire at a dental office in Iroquois, Ontario, where he worked, according to statements obtained by authorities.
The dad also rejected the chance to settle his 2024 threatening charges without going to trial, in a peculiar move.
His former partner testified that she was "actually astonished because I was asking him for child support. I did not expect this."
The wife explained that she reported the message to authorities out of concern for both her own and her family's safety.
She told the publication: "I just don't know what can happen. I just didn't want to live with the unpredictability."
Ontario Court Justice Norman Boxall asked Al-Lami if he wanted to present a defense, to which he replied: "I don't have anything to say, Your Honor."
"I don't understand why you've done this trial," his ex-wife said, adding: "The Crown made you an offer which would have guaranteed you wouldn't have a criminal record. You turned it down, for reasons I don't understand."
Following the trial, Al-Lami was handed a conditional discharge and 12 months of probation, which was months short of what the Crown had looked for.
The judge then turned down the Crown's requests for the dad to undergo domestic violence intervention treatment and submit a DNA sample.
His original attorney legally withdrew from the case in December 2025, claiming that his client had threatened him.
However, Al-Lami made the counter-claim that the attorney was pushing him to accept a peace bond, which he didn't want to.
