India, May 9 -- Three Indian-origin persons have been found guilty for the first-degree murder of a Canadian couple in Abbotsford in 2022, a Canada court ruled on Friday.

Arnold and Joanne De Jong were found dead in their home in Arcadian Way, a rural area in the city on the South-Western part of the country on May 9, 2022, CBC News reported.

British Columbia Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Gurkaran Singh, Abhijeet Singh and Khushveer Toor played a willing and integral role in the couple's murder.

The court agreed with prosecutors that the murders were financially motivated and rejected defence arguments that the deaths resulted from a robbery that went wrong.

"I find each accused was a willing, knowledgeable and integral participa...