Tag: Grant Norton
Last accused sentenced to 18 years in London drug dealer’s killing
Judge accepts joint submission after guilty plea to manslaughter.
Woman sentenced to life, no parole for 25 years in drug dealer’s killing
Superior Court Justice Martha Cook said Grant Norton, 59, was “robbed, savagely beaten, and stabbed”.
Jury deliberations begin in trial of woman accused of killing drug dealer
The jury at the trial of a London woman charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a drug dealer has begun its deliberations. Ashley Bourget, 41, has been on trial since early last month in the death of Grant Norton, 59, whose body was discovered in a white plastic barrel dumped near the […]
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 […]