Tag: London courts

For two weeks, what a jury heard about Dereck Szaflarski’s life boiled down to what happened in the few moments four years ago when he was stabbed to death during a fight with Robert Ashley Williams over jaywalking. On Wednesday, the day after a jury convicted Williams, 39, of second-degree murder, Szaflarski’s friends wanted the […]

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 […]

Mathew Riley was walking up Richmond Street after a night out with friends. Uber driver Ali Can Aslan was making one more pass through London’s bar scene at closing time, hoping to pick up some fares. Both saw a fight. Both knew something serious happened. Both wanted to help. On Friday, the two men were […]

A veteran Toronto police officer has admitted to leaking the address of a London homicide victim to his son, who is charged in the 2020 killing that made international headlines. Det.-Const. Trevor Gregory, 47, appeared by video in a London courtroom Friday and pleaded guilty to breach of trust. The suspended Toronto police officer’s son, […]

A man who tried to kill his friend is facing the possibility of one of the most severe sentences available for repeat, violent offenders. The Crown said Thursday it will seek a dangerous offender or long-term offender designation for Jeremiah Andre Reed, 45, who was convicted of attempted murder and breaching a probation order for […]