The jury at the trial of a London woman charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a drug dealer has begun its deliberations. Ashley Bourget, 41, has been on trial since early last month in the death of Grant Norton, 59, whose body was discovered in a white plastic barrel dumped near the […]
A London home at the centre of a shooting investigation has been targeted by bylaw enforcement in the past, city hall officials say. A heavy police presence descended on a house on Adelaide Street, south of Oxford Street, last Monday around 7:30 a.m. after a shooting victim showed up in hospital two hours earlier. Investigator […]
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 […]
The woman on trial for the first-degree murder of a drug dealer whose body was found in a barrel near the Thames River was used as a “dupe” for the actual perpetrators of the crime, defence counsel said Wednesday. Defence counsel for Ashley Bourget, who pleaded not guilty in the death of Grant Norton, a […]
Rachael Gauthier said she was inside her Adelaide Street home Monday morning when she saw London police vehicles and officers outside what she described as an unsanctioned scrap metal operation across the street. Tactical officers backed up by an armoured vehicle surrounded the property at 726 Adelaide St. N., south of Oxford Street, where she […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By month's end, downtown London drivers will confront a major change: buses coming the other way in one lane of King Street, a longtime one-way street.