Tag: London courts
Judge reluctantly gives gold mine scammer another adjournment before sentencing
Rohit Ablacksingh’s request gave the impression of someone desperate to put off the inevitable.
Three Londoners charged in fatal shooting at party face additional charges
Three Londoners charged in the shooting death of a Western University student last summer face additional charges for allegedly threatening witnesses, telling them to lie to police and getting caught with a loaded gun, court records show.
Bail granted to man charged with manslaughter in woman’s fatal drug overdose
A Toronto man charged with manslaughter in the 2020 overdose death of a London woman was released on bail on the same day he turned himself in to police.
Man acquitted in fatal 2011 shooting charged with arson, extortion
A London man who fatally shot a man during a fight outside an east-end bar over a decade ago faces more than a dozen charges including arson and extortion after he was arrested twice in the past two weeks.
Murder accused goes silent, upending trial’s psychiatric assessment
Samnang Kong’s psychiatric assessment to determine whether he was criminally responsible for killing a London man has hit a snag.
Man who schemed with mothers to create child porn sentenced to prison
There were two sides to the London man who convinced two women to supply him with sexually charged photos and videos of their children.
‘Mere seconds’ changed lives: Judge at Richmond Row murder sentencing
The community can learn from Dereck Szaflarski’s “senseless” death, the judge said. On weekends at closing time in London’s busiest entertainment district, when it’s “full of people who are under the influence of alcohol and other substances,” tempers can flare over the smallest of reasons. “Conflicts of any sort can become the toxic cocktail, which […]
At core of tangled arson, sexual assault trial: Consent and intent
Even William McDonald felt sick hearing the Crown read his text messages describing the rough sex he wanted to have with an escort. “Can I have a bucket?” he asked from the witness box at his Superior Court trial on Friday. While McDonald was bent over a trash can, the court had to break only […]
Accused’s wild day started with rough sex, ended with explosion in car
Seconds after an explosion in the heart of downtown, two men tumbled out of the burning white Honda Civic, both with terrible burns. One of them was William McDonald, 33, who, with burns to his face and hands, ran right into a police officer at the corner of Wellington and Dundas streets on Jan. 17, […]
Second man gets time served for role in bizarre London home invasion
Jezreel Moxam was sentenced to eight years in prison the first time he was convicted for his role in a bizarre 2016 White Oaks home invasion and kidnapping. On Thursday, after more than five years in prison and a month after a successful appeal to Ontario’s highest court, the 34-year-old Toronto man was sentenced again […]