A former St. Thomas police officer abused his position of authority to engage in a sexual relationship with a teen girl and wore his uniform during some of their sexual encounters, according to a new lawsuit. A 25-year-old St. Thomas woman, who alleges she was 15 when she started a sexual relationship with then-Const. Garry […]
Police taped off a large chunk of a downtown London block late Saturday as officers investigated after a person was shot. The probe appeared to be focused on a parking lot on the south side of Queens Avenue, just east of Wellington Street. Yellow police tape closed off a large section as investigators used flashlights […]
A 56-year-old is charged after London police say a man assaulted a couple he knew before forcibly taking their dog. It was about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday when city police say a man and woman were walking their dog in the 300 block of Wellington Road – just north of Base Line Road East, and […]
An alleged Hells Angels biker who was swept up in a massive bust targeting illegal sports betting was shot dead outside a Burlington restaurant.
The woman who pleaded guilty to the bizarre and tragic shooting of her boyfriend in March 2023 is being released on bail pending a sentencing hearing next month.
Cheyanne Metatawabin said she fears she is “a monster.” “Every day, I think of myself as a monster because I know what it’s like to have your precious baby taken away. I’m sorry that that day had happened,” she said to the family of Levi Jordan Brown, who was her boyfriend at the time of […]
A London police employee who a court found was sexually assaulted by an off-duty officer is suing the force for allegedly mishandling the case and not safeguarding details of the investigation from her co-workers. The woman, whose name was protected under a publication ban during the trial of Const. Eldin Omerovic three years ago, has […]
The lawyer for the woman on trial for the murder of a drug dealer whose body was found in a barrel near the Thames River cast doubt on the quality of the evidence linking her client to the killing, calling her client a “scapegoat” for other perpetrators. The lawyer for Ashley Bourget, who pleaded not […]
The woman on trial for the first-degree murder of a drug dealer whose body was found in a barrel near the Thames River was used as a “dupe” for the actual perpetrators of the crime, defence counsel said Wednesday. Defence counsel for Ashley Bourget, who pleaded not guilty in the death of Grant Norton, a […]
London police have charged a man with arson following a fire that disrupted exams at Western University. Emergency crews were called to campus around 2:30 p.m. on April 24 to reports of a fire at the Social Sciences Centre, where firefighters doused a blaze, police said. Nobody was injured. Investigators ruled the fire suspicious and […]
She was dressed just in a towel and smiling at the camera on Canadian hockey star Michael McLeod’s cellphone. It was 4:26 a.m. inside a room at the Delta Armouries hotel in downtown London in June 2018. “It was all consensual. Are you recording me?” she asked in the video, played Wednesday for jurors at […]
So, it’s been hot. The judge knows it. The jury knows it. So do the hockey players in their suits, the lawyers in their gowns and the court staff in their required uniforms. “You may have noticed, it’s a little hot in here,” Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia said Tuesday afternoon to the jury at […]