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.
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 […]
After he had been singled out as a killer, Craig Allan appeared to realize he had reached a fork in the road. London police Det. Sgt. Micah Bourdeau had just told him that Allan’s associate had spoken to the police and pointed the finger at Allan as the one who killed London musician Daniel Fawcett, […]
For two days, Mathew Riley has been in a London courtroom piecing together what he saw and heard in the hours before Shaniqua Henry died. Henry was his friend and she was at his house in the early morning hours of July 19, 2022. He was part of a group with Henry who drove around […]