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What’s not up for debate at Koree Dockstater’s second-degree murder trial is that her friend Shaniqua Henry died of a stab wound to the heart. It’s now up to a judge to decide what happened to her in the early morning three years ago when she was killed. At the Superior Court judge-alone trial before […]
After watching one of his police statements on video, Shane Cameron testified he still couldn’t remember anything about Grant Norton’s death
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Shane Cameron wanted to be anywhere but in the witness box. He slumped in the chair and mumbled a few answers to questions from the Crown. “I frankly don’t know why I’m here because I have a hard time remembering things and I don’t have any recollection about what happened or who or whatever that […]
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 […]