High court reinstates woman’s conviction for attempted murder of mother

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a woman’s conviction for attempting to kill her mother by injecting her with insulin, rejecting claims that the jury needed guidance on distinguishing attempted murder from aiding suicide. In June 2019, a nurse, referred to as B.F., was found with her mother and infant daughter unconscious, all having been injected with insulin. The court ruled that the jury was adequately equipped to determine B.F.’s guilt, emphasizing there was no credible scenario supporting her defense that her mother could have self-administered the insulin. As a result, the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision to allow a new trial for the attempted murder of B.F.’s mother was overturned, restoring her original conviction.