However, the video shown to court showed Ahmed and the investor shaking hands, hugging, dancing and otherwise together earlier in the night,В the judge said.В He said Ahmed's description of the role of the investor, and the time he arrived at the club, changed during the course of his testimony. In Ahmed's version of events, he had attended the club to meet with the investor, but wanted to do so away from Rashid-Ghader, who may have tried to take a cut ofВ theВ deal, and that's what kept him in the club until the time of the fight. However, LalibertГ© said Ahmed failed to provide enough details about key figures about the night of the shootingВ - including the central figure of 'the investor'В - and this hampered his credibility.

The judge agreed with the defence that some of the names and circumstances Ahmed omitted from recounting his criminal involvementВ was reasonable, given it could endanger him while he's in jail. LalibertГ© said Ahmed was evasive when confronted with video of that moment.ДЄhmed, pictured in this photo provided by police, said he acted in self-defence. The judge pointed to video of them hugging and another which showed Ahmed brushing past Rashid-Ghader - mere minutes before their fatal confrontationВ - on his way to speaking to a potential investor in his illegal drug business. In his decision, LalibertГ© said Ahmed's interaction with Rashid-Ghader were not consistent with the 'deep fear' he professed of the deceased, who he knew from his youth involvement in south Ottawa gang activity. The confrontation was caught on security cameras, which the judge said contradicted parts of Ahmed's testimony. Rashid-Ghader was shot twice - once through the heart - and died. 14, after Omar Rashid-Ghader struck him with a bottle while he spoke to a potential investor in his illegal drug business at the bar area of Sentral Nightclub. The judgeВ read his decision at the Elgin Street courthouse.ДЄhmed, 32, pleaded not guilty and testified that he had acted in self-defenceВ on Aug. Ontario Superior Court Justice Ronald LalibertГ©В said he deemed Mustafa Ahmed was notВ credible or reliable when he testified in his defence.

An Ottawa man charged in a deadly 2016 shooting at aВ ByWard Market nightclub has been found guilty of second-degree murder.

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