Khoa Tran was sentenced to life, with no parole for 16 years, in the murder of Reeyaz Habib.

Monday's numbers are the sentence on the June jury verdicts. CityNews's age and its name for Nguyen's conviction do not match CBC News or Global News. CBC News's sentencing story once printed Tran's last name as Tra. Global News's page carried a Monday update time and still described the sentence as scheduled.

CBC News reported Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, that Khoa Tran, 36, was sentenced in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to life in prison with no chance of parole for 16 years for second-degree murder in the death of Reeyaz Habib. CBC News reported Justice Kenneth Campbell imposed the term and that a jury had found Tran guilty in June. The same CBC News story once printed the last name as Tra. CityNews reported Monday that Tran's lawyer confirmed the life sentence with no parole for 16 years. CityNews reported Habib was 56. CBC News and Global News reported he was 53. CBC News reported Campbell also sentenced Isabelle Nguyen, Tran's wife, 30, to six years for being an accessory after the fact and committing an indignity to a human body, and that with presentence custody she has five years and four and a half months left. CityNews reported the same six years and the same time left, and it called her conviction accessory to murder and indignity to a human body. Global News reported she was convicted of being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter and of committing an indignity to a body, and it gave her name as Quynh (Isabelle) Nguyen. Accessory after the fact to manslaughter and accessory to murder are not the same conviction name. Fifty-three and 56 are not the same age.

CBC News reported Campbell said Tran "callously" decided to kill Habib one night, planned some aspects of the murder, and killed him in the middle of the night in his own home. It reported he said, "The killing of Mr. Habib was a senseless and selfish act by Mr. Tran, which predictably had devastating personal consequences for all of the friends and family of the deceased." CBC News reported an autopsy showed dozens of injuries consistent with being beaten or strangled, and that Campbell said Tran then cleaned the scene and put the body in the building's garbage compactor. At the September hearing, Global News reported, Crown attorney Nathaniel Smith told the court the forensic pathologist could not determine a cause of death because the body had decomposed, and that there were at least 34 injuries, both before and after death. Injuries consistent with being beaten or strangled are not a named cause of death. The pathologist's inability to fix a cause is what the Crown told the court in September. It is not a line in CBC News's Monday story.

CBC News reported Tran, a software developer, and Habib, a filmmaker who lived above him, had been in a dispute over barbecue smoke from Tran's balcony. Global News reported they lived in a townhouse complex at 26 Western Battery Road, with Habib directly above. CBC News reported the body was found June 8, 2023, in a trash compactor in the area of East Liberty Street and Western Battery Road, wrapped in blankets and duct tape with "handles," and it dated the death to June 6, 2023. Global News reported the Crown told the court it believes Tran killed Habib in the early morning of June 6. CityNews reported the body was discovered in June 2023 and did not print June 6. CBC News reported Tran testified he was angry about the complaints, that he threw Habib's bicycle in a dumpster, and that he denied the killing and denied he was the person on surveillance video throwing items into the compactor. It reported expert witnesses said his fingerprints were on a note and on duct tape on the body, and that DNA from him and from his wife was on the tape. It reported there was no surveillance video and no known witness to what happened to Habib.

CBC News reported Campbell found that Nguyen helped wrap the body and that she tried to persuade a woman who lived with the couple to fabricate an alibi. CBC News did not name that woman. Global News reported Crown attorneys Nathaniel Smith and Ana Tenhouse asked for 18 years of parole ineligibility for Tran and four to six years for Nguyen. It reported defense lawyer Liam O'Connor asked for 12 to 13 years before parole, and that Nguyen's lawyer, Tyler Smith, asked for a conditional sentence of two years less a day. CBC News's September story reported those same ranges, called the judge Ken Campbell, and said the reasons would be delivered Oct. 26. Sixteen years sits inside the range between those two requests. Six years is the top of the range the Crown asked for Nguyen. Global News reported that when Tran was invited to speak in September he said he had nothing to say while an appeal is pending, and that Nguyen said, "I feel sorry for the family's loss. This great loss will also impact us for the rest of our lives." Global News's article, carrying an Oct. 26 update time, still said Campbell was scheduled to sentence them that day and did not print the 16-year term. CityNews did not name the lawyer who confirmed Monday's sentence. The June jury verdicts are the convictions. Monday's prison terms are the sentences.