Tag: London courts
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 […]
Accused in bizarre London home invasion pleads guilty to lesser offence
A month after he won his appeal, one of three men charged after a violent 2016 home invasion in London’s White Oaks neighbourhood has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Birthday homicide: Friends describe profound effect victim had on them
For two weeks, what a jury heard about Dereck Szaflarski’s life boiled down to what happened in the few moments four years ago when he was stabbed to death during a fight with Robert Ashley Williams over jaywalking. On Wednesday, the day after a jury convicted Williams, 39, of second-degree murder, Szaflarski’s friends wanted the […]
Birthday homicide: Guilty of second-degree murder in fatal stabbing
A London man faces a life sentence after he was found guilty Tuesday night for the stabbing death of a stranger in a Richmond Row brawl downtown. Robert Ashley Williams, 39, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Dereck Szaflarski, 27, a London fitness trainer who died of a stab wound to the […]