Tag: London courts
Witness testifies about women’s fear after fatal bush party shooting: ‘All scared’
They were so scared of a texted threat, they needed a plan. One of the young women who was in Emily Altmannâs car after the fatal shooting of Josue Silva at a southeast London bush party said she, Altmann and three other women made a plan in the car about what to say to police […]
Father gets 21 years, mother 18, for ‘relentless’ abuse of children
The family home, the judge said, was âa house of horrors.â Superior Court Justice Thomas Heeney, in his decision to sentence two parents to long prison sentences for routinely sexually and physically abusing their four children during an 18-year period, said the facts of the case were âthe most egregious that I have encountered during […]
Double killer gets three years for trafficking guns from prison
The second time William (Billy) McDonald was sentenced for murder, the judge said she doubted he would ever give up a life of crime.
Bush party homicide: Witness recalls threatening post-gunshot text message
The few seconds of frantic screams and shouts from a short cellphone video recorded inside Emily Altmannâs car echoed through the courtroom.
Witness describes screaming match between accused, girl at bush party
It was obvious to the people who were with her that Emily Altmann was angry. She and the group of women with whom she had gone to the bush party were walking out of the bush party, followed by another group who were making sure they were leaving. It was because Altmann got into a […]
Bush party murder trial: Pathologist describes teen’s fatal gunshot wound
It was one gunshot that killed Josue Silva.
Mother and daughter charged with accessory to murder in Londoner’s death
Two women charged in connection with a homicide at a west London apartment building are mother and daughter, says a former family friend.
London’s courts are clogged. Two veteran lawyers aim to ease the backlog
Two veteran London lawyers are launching a new mediation business, a bid to speed up resolutions to legal disputes amid notoriously long delays in bring lawsuits to trial. Â
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.
Witness accused of lying, bullying accused at deadly bush party
While acknowledging what happened to Josue Silva at a southwest London bush party was a traumatic event for his friends, the lawyer of one of the people on trial for murder accused a Crown witness of lying. Nathan Gorham, defence lawyer for Emily Altmann, suggested at the start of his cross-examination of Isabella Restrepo, 21, […]