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Fraud-charged Londoner swept up in crackdown on door-to-door scheme
When London police arrested Austin Acheson in February and charged him in an alleged door-to-door fraud targeting seniors, investigators warned there could be more complainants.
Bush party murder trial: Pathologist describes teen’s fatal gunshot wound
It was one gunshot that killed Josue Silva.
Bush party murder trial jury shown knife found in accused’s vehicle
London police Sgt. Derek Hardman carefully pulled the large knife out of the box where it has been stored at police headquarters.
Amid latest London jail death, inquest into seven previous fatalities sputters
Even as another fatality at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre was reported Friday, the province launched a legal battle that threatens to derail the inquest into the deaths of seven other men. The Ministry of the Solicitor General wants to curb the inquest’s examination of staffing levels, family supports and programming at EMDC, and in those efforts, […]
Inmate dies at London’s provincial jail â the 23rd over the last 15 years
Another inmate has died at London’s provincial jail. Emergency services were called to “an institution in the 700-block of Exeter Road after receiving a 9-1-1 call in relation to an unresponsive male” at about 7:20 p.m. on Thursday, London police say. Police later confirmed the address was 711 Exeter Rd., the site of Elgin-Middlesex Detention […]
Deep Geologic Repository letters to the editor
DGR deal puts NWMO in charge The key message from South Bruce Council for the last several months has been that the decision on whether to host the NWMO DGR would be based on the collective support for details of the proposed hosting agreement. Details are important, council told us. Understanding them critical, we are […]
Witness holds firm under defence questioning at bush-party murder trial
As hard as he tried, Emily Altmannâs defence lawyer couldnât get Rachel Johnson to admit she was in a Snapchat video on her best friendâs phone. Thatâs because, she said repeatedly, it wasnât her. The video in question was found on the cellphone of Altmann’s best friend, Isabella Restrepo, and showed mere seconds of Restrepo […]
‘Innocent joke’ preceded fatal gunshot at large bush party: Witness
While hiding in the bushes in the darkness, they heard the pop. Then, everywhere there was chaos. Rachel Johnson, testifying Tuesday at the second-degree murder trial of Emily Altmann, 22, and Carlos Guerra Guerra, 23, described the scene at a southwest London bush party after a gunshot rang out and Western University student Josue Silva, […]
Judge convicts man who rammed police vehicle during wild chase
SARNIA â A Petrolia-area man has been found guilty after trial of nearly all the charges he was facing after a Lambton OPP cruiser was intentionally rammed amid a stolen vehicle chase. Cody Price will be sentenced later this year. A three-day trial into the Dec. 30, 2022 incident was held in Sarnia in July […]
Witness admits to making mocking video before fatal bush-party shooting
A video from a London bush party where a teen was later shot dead, which a 21-year-old posted on social media, shows her own face and then a group of women, one of them with a purse. Emily Altmannâs defence lawyer, Nathan Gorham, asked several times why Isabella Restrepo made that short clip and why […]