Tag: London courts
Good Samaritan’s guilt, family’s pain echo at sentencing of impaired driver
Cindy Devine’s parents said, in her last moments, she asked about the pickup truck driver who struck her along Highbury Avenue.
Psychiatric assessment ordered for accused in fatal London stabbing
Samnang Kong was talking to someone, but no one was there. He was sitting alone in a police headquarters interview room the day after Issara Norindr, 55, was stabbed to death on May 13, 2019. The officer interviewing him stepped out for a moment after almost an hour of questioning. Kong was talking “to something […]
Higher court to hear case against man accused in Afzaal family killings
The case of a London man facing murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family in a deadly hit-and-run has moved to a higher court.
COVID ‘curve ball’ once again delays complex London murder case
COVID-19 keeps delaying the case of a man who is in line for a psychiatric assessment after stabbing a friend to death almost three years ago.
Man accused in deadly London stabbing pleads guilty to manslaughter
One of two men charged in the stabbing death of a construction worker last spring, who was convicted three years ago for viciously beating a London variety store owner, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
London man sentenced to prison in fatal impaired driving crash
A 24-year-old London man was sentenced Wednesday to 5½ years in prison for driving drunk and killing a Woodstock motorcyclist in 2019. Speaking virtually to a London court, Ontario Court Justice Mark Hornblower said the “senseless death” was caused by the actions of driver Kareem Husseini. Husseini clipped one vehicle and narrowly missed another before […]
Sims: Church of God constitution court fight stirs up rhetoric, bad memories
It’s been a slow, tedious courtroom trudge down a terrible memory lane most of us want to put behind us.
Sims: Trial shows ‘COVID abyss’ hurting courts, despite major adaptations
The Crown said Samnang Kong’s trial was stuck in “a COVID abyss.” Kong was supposed to be in a London courtroom Monday for his second-degree murder trial. Instead, his face appeared on a teleconferencing call into court from the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre, wearing a facemask and the requisite orange jail garb. Sometimes he leaned into […]
COVID-19 outbreak at EMDC complicates second-degree murder trial
A London man says he was mentally ill when he stabbed another man to death in a London apartment more than two years ago. “Yes, I was suffering from schizophrenia,” said Samnang Kong, 40, who pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in a London court Monday and said he was not criminally responsible by way […]
Boyfriend of slain woman denied bail for drug and gun charges
A London man charged with more than a dozen gun and drug offences just four months after his girlfriend was gunned down in the driveway of their northwest London home was denied bail on Wednesday.