Tag: London courts

A London man faces a life sentence after he was found guilty Tuesday night for the stabbing death of a stranger in a Richmond Row brawl downtown. Robert Ashley Williams, 39, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Dereck Szaflarski, 27, a London fitness trainer who died of a stab wound to the […]

The jury is deliberating its verdict at a second-degree murder trial of a man accused of stabbing a stranger over a jaywalking beef. The main issue for the jury at Robert Ashley Williams’ second-degree murder trial is whether Williams, 39, had the required intent to kill to be found guilty as charged when he stabbed […]

Robert Ashley Williams insisted he hadn’t “brought a knife to a fist fight.’ Assistant Crown attorney James Spangenberg made that suggestion Wednesday at Williams’ second-degree murder trial.  “How would you describe it?” he asked Williams, who was testifying. “I pulled out a knife as protection for myself just in case… I was going to be […]

It started with some after-hours yelling over jaywalking across one of London’s busiest thoroughfares. Then, the situation escalated to a racial slur and sudden, deadly violence, said the lawyer defending a man charged with second-degree murder. The jury will hear Robert Ashley Williams describe what happened Wednesday when Williams is expected to testify he was […]