A London woman charged with killing her mother has been found guilty by a jury of manslaughter.
Convicted murderer Carlos Guerra Guerra’s sentencing on a gun charge was a bit of an academic – and mathematical – exercise. Guerra Guerra, 23, won’t serve any more prison time for possessing a restricted firearm. The 2½-year sentence dealt Thursday to the aspiring rapper convicted this month of second-degree murder and assault with a weapon […]
The defence and Crown made closing arguments Thursday at the trial of a London woman accused of killing her mother in a fight
Barbara Cabala has maintained throughout her Superior Court manslaughter trial her mother attacked her and she was defending herself during a fight that left her mother dead.
Barbara Cabala testified she still struggles to understand what triggered her mother to “attack” her in a violent struggle that left her mother dead. “I don’t know, that’s what I was trying to process, trying to figure out. Why? Forty years of arguing back and forth, all of a sudden decide to resort to physical […]
The woman charged with manslaughter in the 2021 death of her mother told police that they were “strangling each other full-throttle," the jury heard Friday as the Crown concluded its case.
Barbara Cabala and the London police detective were crowded around the computer in the sparse interview room, listening to her frantic 911 call made hours earlier from her mother’s home after she said they had gotten into a violent exchange. Det. Blair Gould wanted her to hear it, especially after Cabala had told him moments […]
So much pressure was applied to Elzbieta Cabala’s neck that there were fractures to the back of her larynx. In all, there were more than 55 injuries found on the 59-year-old mother’s neck during the autopsy after her death in her Wilkins Street townhouse on July 7, 2021. The forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy […]
Barbara Cabala said she loved her mother, but she never believed her mother loved her. “I was supposed to be perfect and I wasn’t,” Cabala told London police Det. Const. Blair Gould during her first statement to the police after her mother Elzbieta, 59, died at her Wilkins Avenue townhouse. “She made me feel it, […]
Convicted murderer Carlos Guerra Guerra was back in court Monday, this time with a single guilty plea.
Paramedics were faced with two dramatically different medical situations when they were called to a Wilkins Street condo. One was to attend to Barbara Cabala, 43, who was already in the back of a London police cruiser when the paramedics who would deal with her rolled up to the address. The other was Cabala’s mother, […]
A jury is expected to begin hearing evidence on Thursday at the manslaughter trial of a London woman accused in the death of her mother more than three years ago.