Tag: London courts
A body, a barrel and a guilty plea in death of man found by Thames River
How Grant Norton’s body ended up in a barrel along the Thames River came into focus in a London court Wednesday morning.
Prison terms sought for couple who ran ‘commercial’ drug operation on farm
It may have looked like a little Southwest Middlesex hobby farm run by a couple of seniors, but drug prosecutors said it was a well-known destination in the local drug world. “To the drug subculture, these two parties provided an illicit pharmacy as well as a location to consume their drugs,” said federal drug prosecutor […]
Drunk driver sentenced to prison in crash that killed friend
A woman convicted of a deadly drunk-driving crash that killed her friend has been sentenced to five years in prison, a punishment that reflects the “high moral blameworthiness” of her conduct, the judge said.
‘She was clear’: Crown argues officer crossed boundary during sex
They agreed they had consensual sex, and kissed and cuddled another time. But a woman and a rookie London police officer accused of striking and choking her during those intimate encounters disagreed on key details. Their stories differed on where the intercourse happened, the length of the sex and, most importantly, whether any violence took […]
Convicted Creeper Hunter mastermind takes shot to have charges stayed
The Crown called it “issue whack-a-mole.” For two days, Jason Nassr, 42, the brains behind the now defunct website Creeper Hunter TV who faces a jail sentence for his child predator vigilante tactics, took his shot this week at getting his charges stayed before his scheduled sentencing on July 18. Nassr was convicted by jury in […]