Tag: sexual assault
Former London police officer to be sentenced March 5 for sex assault
A former London police officer will be back in court next month for the final chapter of his scandalous journey through the courts.
YMCA’s 2025 Women of Excellence honourees unveiled
The YMCA of Southwestern Ontario’s 2025 Women of Excellence award winners have been announced.
Ex-Woodstock mayor pleads guilty to impaired charge in 2023 crash
Woodstock’s former mayor was sentenced to a 90-day conditional sentence, 12 months of probation and a 12-month driving ban.
Watchdog clears police of wrongdoing in jailed woman’s fentanyl overdose
Ontario SIU has ended a probe into a woman’s fentanyl overdose while in provincial police custody, the province’s police watchdog says.
Former police officer acquitted on 11 of 12 charges, but back in custody
Even though he’d dodged convictions on 11 of 12 charges, former London police officer Will Stephens appeared miserable from his vantage point in the courtroom. That may be because the 47-year-old former cop, who changed his name from Stephen Williams, was in the prisoner’s box during Ontario Court Justice George Orsini’s decision, after he was […]
SIU terminates case related to arrest of man in Paisley
The province’s Special Investigations Unit has terminated an investigation relating to a man who was injured while in police custody in Walkerton, after determining the injury was caused by punching a cell wall. The SIU’s director Joseph Martino terminated the investigation based on the SIU’s preliminary inquiries in the case, including a review of video […]
‘Fear has become my life’ victim says at serial harasser’s sentencing hearing
The Crown is asking for a sentence of 16 1/2 years for the Sarnia man’s unrelenting harassment and violation of women dating back to 2014.
London officer cleared in use of Taser on woman in distress
Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared a London police officer of criminal wrongdoing for using a Taser to “incapacitate” a woman in distress
Man charged after homeless person sexually assaulted: Police
A 33-year-old St. Thomas man is facing a sexual assault charge after a person was sexually assaulted while sleeping outdoors. St. Thomas police say the unidentified complainant was asleep in an open shed near the city’s downtown core, seeking shelter from the cold, when the sexual assault took place. The complainant and the accused were […]
‘Obvious liar’: Judge rips ex-Woodstock mayor, convicts him of sexual assault
The former mayor of Woodstock, the judge said upon convicting him on Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault, was playing fast and loose with the truth. “Bluntly,” Superior Court Justice Spencer Nicholson said of Trevor Birtch, “I found Mr. Birtch to be completely incredible and an obvious liar. “I find that Mr. Birtch lied […]