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In local arts news this week, we explore Classical IPR’s new podcast through the lens of humor. And then there’s a murder, a fictional one.
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
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 Free Press
Ashley Bourget told the police officer she should have been given “a Purple Heart” instead of a first-degree murder charge. “I shouldn’t go to jail for murder. I should get a Purple Heart instead,” she said through loud sobs during her police interview on June 16, 2021, referring to the U.S. military honour. The interview […]
London Free Press
Ashley Bourget said she’d had enough. “I’m done with this because I told you now what happened 100 times and I’m fed up so I’m going to go. If you need me you know where I live,” she said as she stood up to leave the London police interview room. “Now I look like a […]
London Free Press
The morning Antony Centeno-So stabbed a friend to death is, he said, “a blur.” “It is all a blur for me because I was regularly sleep deprived and under the influence of crystal meth and fentanyl. This was the lowest time of my life,” he said Thursday at the second day of his sentencing hearing […]
London Free Press
A 50-year-old man facing charges of manslaughter and arson is the third person charged in the death of a St. Thomas woman last summer, police say. Victoria Dill, 40, died in hospital after she was found with a gunshot wound near the scene of a fire at an apartment at 20 Hiawatha St. in St. […]
London Free Press
While his police statement played on the courtroom video screens, Shane Cameron rocked and shook in the witness box. He closed his eyes. It was apparent he wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the courtroom. “I’m not feeling the best,” he said to Superior Court Justice Martha Cook. “A day and a […]