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Charges have been laid after London police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city’s north end early Tuesday, police say. At around 1 a.m., a group of men was in a parking garage in the 700 block of Kipps Lane, near the intersection of Adelaide Street North, when they […]
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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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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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Police are investigating after a newborn baby was found on a London porch. The baby was left at a home near the intersection of Sterling Street and Oxford Street East, police say. That area is in east London, between Adelaide Street and Quebec Street. It was about 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday when London police say […]
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While his police statement played on the courtroom video screens, Shane Cameron rocked and shook in the witness box. He closed his eyes. It was apparent he wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the courtroom. “I’m not feeling the best,” he said to Superior Court Justice Martha Cook. “A day and a […]
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One person was taken to hospital following a blaze in a London apartment on Tuesday. The fire broke out in a second-floor unit of a building near the intersection of Hamilton Road and Adelaide Street east of the city’s core, London Fire Department officials wrote on social media at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Fire prevention […]