Tag: London courts
Mom-of-five sentenced in ambush killing of ex-Helix guitarist
Allana Lebars may not have wielded the knife that stabbed and killed Daniel Fawcett, but she played a significant part in his death.
Trial date may soon be set in hockey players’ sexual-assault case
The date of a much-anticipated trial of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team charged with sexual assault likely won’t be set until at least next month. During a brief hearing Tuesday in London’s Superior Court of Justice, during its monthly online scheduling court, Justice Alissa Mitchell ordered the case return on June […]
London police officer gets bail after six days in jail following arrest
A veteran London police officer facing a mounting tally of criminal charges has been released on bail after spending nearly a week in jail. Const. Juan Romero, 47, had been in custody at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre since May 7 after police charged him with criminal harassment and failing to comply with a release order. […]
Mother denies sexually assaulting children on stand: ‘I didn’t do it’
The situation, she wrote, was “desperate.” Swimming in debt, the mother of children who accuse her and their father of years of sadistic sexual and physical abuse wrote in her personal journals that the family’s finances were in chaos. Assistant Crown attorney Jennifer Moser pointed out while cross-examining the woman that a journal entry in […]
London police officer remains in custody awaiting bail hearing after latest charges
A suspended London police officer charged with harassment and breaching his release conditions for the second time is being held in custody until a bail hearing next week.