Angry in the Great White North

From the Globe and Mail:

Toronto police arrested a 32-year-old man yesterday and accused him of stabbing to death his 20-year-old neighbour before dumping her body in a garbage bag.

William Imona-Russel will appear in court at Old City Hall this morning, where he will be formally charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Yasmin Ashareh. Mr. Imona-Russel faces other "very serious" outstanding charges, police said, but refused to elaborate on the nature of the alleged offences.

Det. Banks refused to elaborate on the relationship between Mr. Imona-Russel and Ms. Ashareh.

Det. Banks yesterday denied news reports that suggested that Ms. Ashareh could have been the victim of an honour killing based on her Muslim faith.

As far as I can tell, and I've been following this story via Google news daily, this blog was the only place to "report" that this could have been an honour killing. The National Post merely pointed out that news that she was unmarried and pregnant, if true, would have been "ill-received" by Muslims.

Either Det. Banks is giving this blog far too much credit, or there was a lot of buzz among main stream media reporters considering the possibility that was not reaching the papers but was reaching Det. Banks.

So it wasn't an honour killing, but he won't say what it was. Fair enough. We'll learn more as time goes by.

Looks like my spidey-sense was wrong.

However...

I do find it interesting that the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, and the Toronto Star all prominently repeat the bit about this not being an honour killing. As far as I can tell, though, none of these papers printed that possibility in their previous stories.

On the other hand, the National Post did make a broad hint in that direction when the story first broke. And yet the National Post has not repeated Det. Banks assertion that this was not an honour killing.

Is this a case of the other three papers rubbing the Post's nose in it? And is the Post holding firm, at least for now, until Det. Banks elaborates on the exact motives of the killing, and the as of yet undiclosed relationship between the victim and the suspect?

I certainly would like to know more of these details.