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If it hadn’t been for the trees, Grant Norton’s body might have been lost in the Forest City.

"The potential of everything my nephew would have ahead has been lost"

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 […]

It wasn’t like Grant Norton to not contact his daughter “pretty much every day.”

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 […]

Craig Allan’s first instinct during his police interview was to lie and deny.

Taymoor Pasha’s massive fentanyl stash – the largest fentanyl seizure in London history – has given the local courts a chance to draw a line in the sand in the ongoing war against opioids. “Put large-scale traffickers on notice to say traffic if you dare and risk decades of your life,” federal drug prosecutor Vince […]

Clay Kuzio stood and apologized for what happened and told the court he wished he could trade places with Rachel Stapleton. In reality, Kuzio, 24, almost died like Stapleton did after a catastrophic crash Jan. 6, 2022, on Southdale Road that killed Stapleton, 36, and left Kuzio, who suffered lasting brain injuries, in a coma […]

While Debb Beer’s family poured out their hearts, Joshua Biernacki put his hands over his face and sobbed. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Debb or talk about Debb, especially with (Beer’s daughter). We often find ourselves watching old videos and looking at pictures,” Beer’s mother Cindy said in her victim […]

The judge said James Munroe’s campaign of violence against women was the worst he'd ever seen in his court

The witness made it clear that if there was any plan at all the night London musician Daniel Fawcett was fatally stabbed, it certainly wasn’t one that would leave him dead. “Dan thought I was going to be selling him drugs. We thought we were going to beat him up,” said the reluctant Crown witness […]