Tag: adelaide
Defence lawyer rips DNA evidence in drug-dealer murder trial: ‘Framed’
The lawyer for the woman on trial for the murder of a drug dealer whose body was found in a barrel near the Thames River cast doubt on the quality of the evidence linking her client to the killing, calling her client a “scapegoat” for other perpetrators. The lawyer for Ashley Bourget, who pleaded not […]
Accused was ‘a dupe’ in killing of drug dealer: Defence lawyer
The woman on trial for the first-degree murder of a drug dealer whose body was found in a barrel near the Thames River was used as a “dupe” for the actual perpetrators of the crime, defence counsel said Wednesday. Defence counsel for Ashley Bourget, who pleaded not guilty in the death of Grant Norton, a […]
Shooting charge laid after injured man shows up at London hospital: Police
Rachael Gauthier said she was inside her Adelaide Street home Monday morning when she saw London police vehicles and officers outside what she described as an unsanctioned scrap metal operation across the street. Tactical officers backed up by an armoured vehicle surrounded the property at 726 Adelaide St. N., south of Oxford Street, where she […]
Accused denies killing drug dealer, ‘bragging’ about it
Ashley Bourget admitted she didn’t like Grant Norton. “It doesn’t mean I killed him,” she said during her third day in the witness box at her first-degree murder trial. Bourget, 41, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of the 59-year-old drug dealer, began her testimony on Tuesday and started to […]
Man charged after fake gun flashed at group in London parking lot
Charges have been laid after London police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city’s north end early Tuesday, police say. At around 1 a.m., a group of men was in a parking garage in the 700 block of Kipps Lane, near the intersection of Adelaide Street North, when they […]