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 […]
Barbara Cabala has maintained throughout her Superior Court manslaughter trial her mother attacked her and she was defending herself during a fight that left her mother dead.
A veteran London cop has resigned amid allegations he hired a sex-trade worker and insulted fellow officers on social media. Seven professional misconduct charges against Const. Juan Romero, 47, were stayed Friday after a tribunal heard the 20-year service member had resigned from the force. But that’s not the end of legal trouble for Romero, […]
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The smudging ceremony in the courtroom before Craig French was sentenced for fentanyl trafficking aimed to honour ancestors and cleanse bodies and minds. The ceremony is rarely seen in the Superior Court of Justice. Before it began, there was an explanation how the Indigenous ceremony was considered to be âsacred
Sarnia resident Cordell Chambers has a reputation for causing commotions inside the cityâs courthouse, jail, and police headquarters.
The province is making another attempt to limit the scope of a coroner's inquest into seven London jail deaths.
Statistics from the first year suggest that highly supportive housing changes the lives of even the most troubled people living on London's streets and make the streets themselves safer for everyone.
Urged by a coroner to figure quickly out its next steps at a delayed inquest, a provincial ministry is seeking even more time to provide answers. That has derailed the inquest indefinitely and put families who were on the brink of learning more about their loved ones’ deaths back into
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A London man who died after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the city’s provincial jail had spent more than six months in custody awaiting a bail hearing since his arrest in the summer, according to court records. Read More
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The person who died after being found unresponsive in his cell at London's Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre is being remembered as a man with a big personality and “good heart” who put his family first. Read More
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An inmate at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC) died Friday, the province has confirmed. Read More