Chatham courts

A former employee who pleaded guilty to defrauding the United Way of Chatham-Kent out of about $300,000 made a tearful apology in court before receiving a nearly two-year sentence of house arrest

One of the three people accused of killing a Tilbury man wants to fire his lawyer and nix a planned assessment of his fitness to stand trial, a Chatham court heard Tuesday.

CHATHAM – Emotions ran high in a Chatham courtroom as the mother of a teenager killed in a violent encounter lashed out at the judge during a youth’s sentencing hearing. The male youth was 17 when the teen was stabbed to death in a drug deal gone bad involving four

Veronica Whittal, 48, made a brief appearance in a Chatham court Monday morning. Duty counsel told the court Whittal needs to apply for legal aid. Her matter was adjourned to March 26. Read More

Arielle Wall’s eyes welled with tears as a court officer handcuffed her and led her from a Chatham courtroom after Superior Court Justice Russell Raikes passed sentence Tuesday. He also banned her from driving for eight years after her release. Read More

A home surveillance video played a significant role in a Chatham youth pleading guilty to a lesser charge in a teen’s stabbing death in 2022, his lawyer says. Read More

A brief Superior Court hearing was held Tuesday, via video, in the case involving Arielle Wall, 22, who was convicted in September of impaired driving causing death and having a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit for driving. Read More

Ryan Rumble, a director of Banknote Capital, which is facing a $5-million lawsuit, took part via a video call from the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai in a court proceeding in Chatham on Thursday. Read More

CHATHAM – A Chatham man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison, with no hope of parole for 14 years, for the “brutal and senseless” 2022 slaying of his girlfriend. Read More

A Sarnia man whose second-degree murder trial in the death of a Chatham man ended in a mistrial has pleaded guilty to a reduced weapons possession charge and received a two-year conditional sentence. Read More

CHATHAM – A judge has sentenced a 22-year-old man to eight years in prison and banned him from owning animals for life in a Chatham shooting that injured two people and killed a dog in January 2021. Read More

A mistrial was declared Thursday in a Chatham murder trial after a second attempt by jurors to come to a unanimous decision failed. Read More