Tag: London courts

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 […]

The stab wound that killed Dereck Szaflarski during a downtown confrontation was deep enough to pierce his heart and cause massive bleeding. However, as was described at Robert Ashley Williams’ second-degree murder trial Thursday, that wound was one of five that injured the London personal trainer who died on May 26, 2018. Williams has pleaded […]

Abdalla Osman was used to battling the heavy traffic at closing time in the middle of London’s bar scene. It wasn’t unusual, the former cab driver testified Wednesday at Robert Ashley Williams’s second-degree murder trial, for people to jaywalk across Richmond Street once the pubs closed as they made their way home. That was the […]

One moment Dereck Szaflarski was walking up Richmond Street with two friends after celebrating his 27th birthday. Within minutes, the London personal fitness trainer was lying on his back on a sidewalk, dying from a stab wound after the briefest of fights with a driver who was upset at the trio for crossing the street. […]

The jury at a London murder trial isn’t being asked to figure out who stabbed Dereck Szaflarski. What it’s been asked to decide is whether Robert Ashley Williams is guilty of murder after a confrontation with Szaflarski on Richmond Street on May 26, 2018. “This is not a case of a whodunit,” said assistant Crown […]

The man who was stabbed in the neck testified he was certain who did it.

Grant Douglas agreed he’s had a drug problem, that he’s lived on the streets and he has a criminal record. But he wouldn’t agree to suggestions he was high and didn’t know who stuck a knife into his neck at about 4 a.m. on June 20, 2020. “I remember who stabbed me, that’s for darn […]

As a funeral looms for London’s most recent homicide victim, the man charged in her slaying made a brief court appearance Wednesday.

Bleeding from a wound on the back of his neck, Grant Douglas ran out to Adelaide Street with the man who stabbed him laughing behind him, like a scene from a horror movie. “He’s got this Michael Myers’ pace on and he’s just following me and I’m just running,” said Douglas, 48, referring to the […]