Tag: London courts
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London police officer remains in custody awaiting bail hearing after latest charges
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A suspended London police officer charged with harassment and breaching his release conditions for the second time is being held in custody until a bail hearing next week.
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Four siblings who fled family home had ‘a lot of trauma’: Witness
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After fleeing their family home, four siblings needed safe places to land and they found them with members of their faith.
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Prolific pimp with stable of seven females convicted of human trafficking
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When one of Jordan Hawke’s human trafficking victims told him she was exhausted from long days of selling sex in hotel rooms across Ontario, he had a firm response. “Money doesn’t sleep and money doesn’t care about your feelings,” he told her. The woman had been seeing between eight and 10 clients a day. One…
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Lawyer’s request witness have scars photographed ‘improper’: Judge
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It was a highly unusual courtroom request, and as it turned out, inappropriate.
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Defence lawyer challenges daughter’s abuse claims at parents’ trial
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The photo showed a young woman in a bathing suit basking in the sun on a beach in Greece, her face half-obscured by a large sun hat. The woman testifying at the Superior Court jury trial of her parents accused of violence and sexual abuse, first said she wasn’t sure it was her sister, then…
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Man to be sentenced May 27 for fire that destroyed Black Walnut cafe
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A London man who burned down a popular Wortley Village café will be sentenced next month.
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Daughter describes sex assaults, brutal punishment at parents’ abuse trial
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Editor’s note: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers Tiny bottles of sparkly nail polish were in the loot bags given out at her fairy princess birthday party. She wasn’t allowed to have any. Her strict religious parents had a lot of rules to follow and there were big consequences if…
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Lawyer’s illness delays sentencing of man convicted in Pride clash
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Richard Sillers’ legal fate and the conclusion of the Wortley Pride kerfuffle will wait for another couple of months. Sillers, 38, was found guilty in March of possessing a dangerous weapon – one of the flagpoles he had attached to his pickup truck – and not guilty of causing a disturbance after a to-do in…
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Man who vanished while on bail finally sentenced for fatal 2015 shooting
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The first moments of Ali Fageer’s sentencing hearing began with an apology – not from the man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but from the judge.
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Defence lawyer challenges delays by witness in disclosing abuse details
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Every time the witness spoke to the police, they said they disclosed a little bit more of what they said happened to them. However, what one of the defence lawyers wanted to know was why the witness at a shocking abuse and sexual assault trial didn’t tell the police and child welfare investigators everything from…