Tag: murder
Accused testifies she ‘felt betrayed’ to be left with drug dealer’s body
Ashley Bourget says she went for a bike ride and bought clothing at a thrift store after being ordered to leave her east London apartment where a bloodied, motionless Grant Norton was tied up on her couch. Bourget returned to her Adelaide Street home hours later to find Norton dead on the couch and the […]
Accused says she was asked to lure drug dealer to her apartment
Ashley Bourget said she’s putting her safety and reputation at risk by taking the stand at her first-degree murder trial. “I’m afraid of retaliation from the mob,” she testified Tuesday as the defence began its case in the Superior Court jury trial now in its fifth week. “I’m also afraid of what people on the […]
Accused’s violent poem entered as evidence at drug dealer murder trial
Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October 2023 while she was behind bars became evidence at her first-degree murder trial in the death of high-level drug dealer Grant Norton. “Now that I’m […]
Accused in drug dealer’s death tells police ‘I want to die’
While slumped in a wheelchair, her long hair covering her face and wrapped in two blankets, Ashley Bourget got to listen to what others in her circle were saying about her involvement in the death of drug dealer Grant Norton. They told the police Bourget had been “bragging” about killing Norton, that he was “tortured […]
London home where nurse was fatally shot listed for $1.18M
A northwest London home linked to one of the city’s most shocking homicides in recent years has been listed for sale for $1.18 million. Homicide victim Lynda Marques lived at 2229 Wateroak Dr., located in the city’s Fox Hollow neighbhourhood, with her boyfriend, Ali Bhatti, and their young son. Two masked gunmen shot Marques, 30, […]