Tag: London courts
Birthday homicide: Cabbie recalls glimpse of fatal fight at murder trial
Abdalla Osman was used to battling the heavy traffic at closing time in the middle of London’s bar scene. It wasn’t unusual, the former cab driver testified Wednesday at Robert Ashley Williams’s second-degree murder trial, for people to jaywalk across Richmond Street once the pubs closed as they made their way home. That was the […]
Birthday homicide: Witnesses recount man’s final hours before core clash
One moment Dereck Szaflarski was walking up Richmond Street with two friends after celebrating his 27th birthday. Within minutes, the London personal fitness trainer was lying on his back on a sidewalk, dying from a stab wound after the briefest of fights with a driver who was upset at the trio for crossing the street. […]
Confrontation over jaywalking sparked deadly downtown clash: Crown
The jury at a London murder trial isn’t being asked to figure out who stabbed Dereck Szaflarski. What it’s been asked to decide is whether Robert Ashley Williams is guilty of murder after a confrontation with Szaflarski on Richmond Street on May 26, 2018. “This is not a case of a whodunit,” said assistant Crown […]
Mistaken identity suggested in closing arguments at attempted murder trial
The man who was stabbed in the neck testified he was certain who did it.
Stabbed man doesn’t budge from testimony about who attacked him
Grant Douglas agreed he’s had a drug problem, that he’s lived on the streets and he has a criminal record. But he wouldn’t agree to suggestions he was high and didn’t know who stuck a knife into his neck at about 4 a.m. on June 20, 2020. “I remember who stabbed me, that’s for darn […]