A Toronto jury on Wednesday found a man and his wife guilty in connection with the murder of their Liberty Village neighbour, 53-year-old filmmaker, Reeyaz Habib.The jury returned the verdict for 36-year-old Khoa Tran and his wife, Isabelle Nguyen, just before 8:30 p.m.Tran was found guilty of second-degree murder. Meanwhile, Nguyen was found guilty of accessory to murder and indignity to a body. The couple lived below Habib in a Liberty Village townhouse complex.Screams were heard coming from Habib’s apartment in the overnight hours of June 6, 2023 and his body was later found in a trash compactor in the underground garage of the complex two days later, on June 8.Tran had previously testified that he heard screaming, footsteps and what sounded like someone falling down the stairs all coming from Habib’s unit on June 6.In a wide ranging cross examination, the crown attorney Anna Tenhouse asked Tran about a phone conversation he had with two police constables on June 9, 2023, a day after Habib’s body was found.She suggested that about halfway through the conversation revolving around Habib’s death and the discovery of his body, the constables asked Tran about screaming coming from Habib’s unit late at night. Tenhouse asked why Tran had not offered the information to the officers earlier in the conversation.Tran responded saying he was unsure if the screams and the discovery of the body were related, saying he thought Habib was having a “mental health crisis” or perhaps filming a scene.“These things happen in movies or in stories, they don’t happen to me or to normal people,” he said, adding that’s why it did not immediately occur to him that something nefarious was going on. He had also told police in the days before his arrest that he would hear screaming and stomping from Habib’s unit on average once a month.Following the verdict, the judge described the circumstances surrounding Habib’s murder as “the most serious nature.”Bail for Tran and his wife was revoked as they await sentencing scheduled for Sept. 9, 2026.With files from CityNews’ Shauna Hunt.