Ashley Bourget wouldn’t tell Joe Hodgkin over the phone why she urgently needed him to come to her apartment.
Shocking body-camera footage shown at trial of two people charged in Haldimand police officer's death
At first glance, the two accused of the murder of OPP Const. Greg Pierzchala could be mistaken for a couple making a business deal. But Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry, sitting in two separate prisoner docks in Cayuga court Thursday, are charged with the first-degree murder of the young officer on Dec. 27, 2022 – […]
The Crown’s last witness at Koree Dockstater’s trial was one of the last people to see Shaniqua Henry alive. That wasn’t lost on Robert John, 30, who grew emotional when he was asked questions about his friend Henry, 27, whom he found dead in a puddle on a gravel driveway on Chippewas of the Thames […]
Devon Cherrey-Rooke’s family never doubted how much he loved them and they loved him back. Sometime before his death on Aug. 7, 2022, he sent them a letter saying he was ready to move past the tough life he was living. “I’m done doing drugs. I miss my family, making good money, being trusted and […]
It is an unusual court exhibit at a trial about an unusual homicide. When investigators found it, it was wrapped in three layers of plastic and tucked into an old pillowcase. On Wednesday, the Superior Court jury at Ashley Bourget’s first-degree murder trial got a second look at a hatchet found in a homemade backyard […]
Even in the clutter of Ashley Bourget’s small Adelaide Street apartment, the black baseball bat was hard to miss.
If it hadn’t been for the trees, Grant Norton’s body might have been lost in the Forest City.
It was a snippet from the main witness’s testimony at Craig Allan’s second-degree murder that the Crown wanted the judge to hear again. Assistant Crown attorney Marcia Hilliard, during her closing argument, replayed for Superior Court Justice Patricia Moore one of several confrontational moments between the witness, who was an associate of Allan’s and whose […]
Before they found Grant Norton’s body, the police already had information that he might have been killed. “We had information that he was involved in the illicit drug culture and that he had been robbed . . . and killed,” London police Det.-Const. Blake Morrison, who has spent years on the investigation into Norton’s death, […]