A trial date has been set for a Toronto neurosurgeon accused of murdering his wife.
Mohammad Shamji will sit in front of a jury in April 2019.
He was charged with first-degree murder and committing an indignity to human remains after his physician wife's body was found in a suitcase near an underpass in Kleinburg in December 2016.
Police had said Dr. Elana Fric-Shamji died by strangulation and blunt force trauma.
Shamji was arrested the next day.
The judge told court Wednesday that the lawyers and prosecutors will continue a judicial pre-trial late next month.
The trial will begin on April 1, 2019 with jury selection starting a week later.
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