Jail time off table as Woodstock cop pleads guilty to assault
A Woodstock police officer pleaded guilty to an assault charge Thursday – and already knows he won’t face jail time.
Girlfriend describes frantic search on night boyfriend was shot dead
The girlfriend of a man found shot to death on an east London street more than three years ago said she “frantically” searched for him after he failed to call her back at an appointed time. Adriana Decker, who was Scotty Pate’s girlfriend for about a year at the time of his death, testified she […]
Truck driver found guilty in crash that killed London journalist
A London truck driver who crashed into a car at a southeast London intersection, killing a local journalist, has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death.
Accused killer ‘detached from reality,’ not criminally responsible: Psychiatrist
Robert Charnock’s mental state at the time he killed his boarding house neighbour is the central issue at his murder trial.
Accused killer feigning schizophrenia to dodge murder charge: Psychiatrist
Robert Charnock and Kenneth Wallis had lived beside each other peacefully at a Wharncliffe Road boarding house. Charnock, 42, who is on trial for second-degree murder, told a psychiatrist some months after Wallis’s death that he kind of felt sorry for his 56-year-old neighbour who moved in beside him in the spring of 2021. He […]
Defence tries to discredit key witness who died before manslaughter trial
The defence lawyers for three people on trial for manslaughter can’t ask a key witness about what he told the police.
Woman who lured gifted guitarist to his death pleads guilty to manslaughter
Allana Lebars originally was charged with second-degree murder, but pleaded this week to manslaughter.
Guilty pleas in man’s stabbing, beating death – but not to murder
Mohammed Abdallah, critically stabbed eight times and covered in blood, was trying to crawl to the sidewalk when two people saw him. It was after 3 a.m. on Aug. 29, 2021, when two people saw Abdullah, 29, trying to get to the south side of Southdale Road, near the Millbank Drive housing complex. By the […]
Conditional sentence for teen who stabbed two bullies near high school
A teenager charged in a double stabbing near a north London high school last year was bullied, beat up and forced to beg for mercy from two teens prior to the attack, his lawyer says.
Man accused in guitarist’s death pleads guilty to driving, possession charges
Surveillance cameras at a Toronto-area motel captured a man and woman charged in a London guitarist’s death inside a vehicle reported stolen from London on the day the musician was found dead, court heard.