NEWMARKET, Ont. -- A Toronto-area jury has found Jennifer Pan guilty of orchestrating a phoney home invasion that killed her mother and seriously injured her father.

Pan, 28, and three co-accused are convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the attack that killed her mother, 53-year-old Bieh Ha Pan, and left her father, 60-year-old Hann Pan, with a critical head wound.

Lenford Crawford, David Mylvaganam and Pan's on-again, off-again boyfriend Daniel Wong were charged along with Pan in the Nov. 8, 2010 slaying at Pan's Markham, Ont. home.

Pan dropped her head and looked down in silence as the verdict was read.

Prosecutors alleged Pan hatched the plan after her parents forced her to choose between them and Wong, her high-school sweetheart turned drug dealer.

The ultimatum came after the Pans discovered their daughter had been lying to them for nearly a decade, forging report cards and diplomas and telling them she shared an apartment with a friend when in fact she was living with Wong.

Forced to return home and give up her relationship with the man she loved, Pan first tried to have her father killed, she admitted during trial. But she gave up that plan when the man she hired took off with her money, she said.

Months later, as the rift between her and her parents grew, she came up with another scheme. By then, she and Wong had broken up, but she still reached out to him for help, court heard.

The Crown said she asked her ex-boyfriend to find people who could kill her parents, freeing her from their control and allowing her to live off her generous inheritance. The cost of the hit: $10,000 or $5,000 per parent, prosecutors said.

The arrangements were made through calls and text messages on various phones, including what the Crown called Pan's "secret murder phone," which she hid from her parents, they argued.

But Pan testified she hired someone she knew only as Homeboy to kill her, not her parents, and called off the deal days before the incident as her family life began to improve. She even agreed to pay a $8,500 cancellation fee, and was gathering the money the day of the attack, she said.

In his closing arguments, Pan's lawyer told the court the killing was the result of a robbery gone wrong, and that his client wasn't a murderer, but a victim of crime.

Wong and Crawford's lawyers said their clients weren't at the house that night, and argued there was insufficient evidence to prove they were part of a murder plot.

Mylvaganam admitted he was at the home, but said he didn't go inside, nor did he shoot anyone.

A fifth co-accused, Eric Carty, is now to be tried separately after his lawyer fell ill during the 10-month trial.