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 […]
A police officer testified Friday he saw three men near a woman's body when he arrived at a home on Chippewa of the Thames First Nation
The text messages found on Daniel Fawcett’s cell phone appeared to leave a breadcrumb trail to follow to his final moments. There were weeks of conversations found by the police between Fawcett and an associate who was a friend of Craig Allan, 50, the man on trial for Fawcett’s death. Those final messages directed Fawcett […]
Second person charged after a child was found injured by a shotgun blast in a northwest London home last month, court records show.
A former London police officer with an admitted sex addiction was sentenced on Wednesday to a six-month conditional sentence for sexually assaulting a woman he met online.
The officer wrote in his notes that he was being dispatched to a sudden-death occurrence that was “a possible fentanyl overdose.” But OPP identification Const. Rob Laaper testified Tuesday the death was deemed to be suspicious in nature because of wounds on the deceased’s arms. “Cut to the bone. No blood,” he wrote in his […]
Christine Bishop and Terry Albert’s relationship was described as “tumultuous.” The couple didn’t share any children, but both were addicted to drugs, including fentanyl, the powerful, highly addictive synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and the main drug implicated in the ongoing opioid drug crisis. Both of them were […]
These are examples of cases that have become way too common in the local courts. A 31-year-old man was acquitted Wednesday in a London courtroom after a trial on a charge of pointing a handgun at another man during an argument along the Richmond Row bar strip, largely because the evidence from witnesses at the […]
The court case surrounding an alleged $8-million drug lab found in a luxury London home continued Monday with just one defendant. Late last week, the Crown requested Superior Court Justice Ian Leach dismiss all charges against Donovan Wendt, 32, who was charged in April 2023 after police discovered a large, sophisticated lab for making cannabis […]
Just when it didn’t seem possible for Woodstock’s embattled former mayor to be in more hot water, Trevor Birtch was back in a London courtroom Thursday on trial for charges related to his complicated love life.
It was a dark-coloured sticky substance that was illegal. “I didn’t know the name of the stuff he was making,” the young school-age child testified at a drug-lab trial. “I knew it was the weed and the syrup and the gummies… and the cigars made out of weed.” It was remarkable testimony from a school-age […]
A former London police officer will be back in court next month for the final chapter of his scandalous journey through the courts.