Tag: London courts
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.