Jennifer Pan, whose murder-for-hire plot against her parents is the subject of a chapter in True Crime Case Histories – Volume 5, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in her mother’s death on March 18, 2026. The plea closes one of the longest-running chapters in modern Canadian true crime — more than fifteen years after the staged 2010 home invasion that left Bich Ha Pan dead and Hann Pan gravely injured in their Markham, Ontario home.

The plea is the result of a long appellate climb. Pan was originally convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder in 2015, along with three co-accused: her ex-boyfriend Daniel Wong, who arranged the hit, plus Lenford “Homeboy” Crawford and David Mylvaganam — two of the gunmen who entered the house that night. But in May 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario overturned the first-degree murder convictions, ruling that the trial judge had failed to instruct the jury on a third possible scenario: that the plan was to kill only Hann Pan, with Bich Ha Pan’s death being a tragic but unintended consequence. The attempted murder convictions stood.

The Crown appealed, and on April 10, 2025, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the order for new murder trials in a 7–2 decision. Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote that there was an “air of reality” to the theory that only Hann had been the intended target — enough that the original jury should have been allowed to consider it.

Rather than face a second jury, Pan accepted a manslaughter plea. The agreed statement of facts acknowledges that while she did not plan her mother’s killing, she should have known her mother might be home when the killers arrived — making her death an objectively foreseeable consequence of the plot to murder Hann. Pan received a life sentence, but is now eligible to apply for parole, having already served more than fifteen years.

Her co-accused followed similar paths. Daniel Wong was convicted of manslaughter in a separate trial. Lenford Crawford pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder. David Mylvaganam, the last defendant to be sentenced, was given a life sentence on April 8, 2026 following his own manslaughter conviction. All four are now eligible for parole. The fifth man, Eric “Sniper” Carty, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy back in 2015, died in his cell at Kent Institution in 2018.

For the family that survived, the legal redefinition probably matters less than what was lost. Hann Pan, who barely survived being shot in the face, has cut off all contact with his daughter. He once said at sentencing that he felt as though he were dead too. A manslaughter conviction means the courts now formally accept that Pan didn’t want her mother to die. It doesn’t change the fact that Bich Ha Pan walked through her own front door that night because her daughter unlocked it for the men who killed her.