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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Carlos Guerra Guerra was sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 16 years for fatally shooting Josue Silva at a London bush party
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]