Three U.K. men charged in Owen Sound restaurant owner’s death: Police

London Free Press
OWEN SOUND – Three men from the United Kingdom are charged in the 2023 death of an Owen Sound restaurant owner who was assaulted outside his business in a dispute over an unpaid bill. The charges were announced at a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Owen Sound by Owen Sound
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Woman gets six years in prison for kidnapping in grisly slaying

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A woman initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Windsor man who was  shot, dismembered and burned on Walpole Island in 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to six years behind bars for kidnapping.
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Man tries to disarm officers while being arrested at bank: Police

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A man causing a disturbance at a bank resisted officers as they tried to arrest him and grabbed at their equipment, London police said. Police responded at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to bank on Hyde Park Road south of Fanshawe Park Road where a man was causing a disturbance. Officers
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Bush party homicide trial: Accused takes witness stand, recalls fatal gunshot

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Just as Carlos Guerra Guerra was about to describe how he used his loaded handgun in what he says was self-defence, his voice broke and his eyes welled. “Can we take a break, please?” he said on Wednesday to defence lawyer Ricardo Golec, who had been asking Guerra Guerra about
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Fentanyl dealer who dodged manslaughter charge gets house arrest

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The smudging ceremony in the courtroom before Craig French was sentenced for fentanyl trafficking aimed to honour ancestors and cleanse bodies and minds. The ceremony is rarely seen in the Superior Court of Justice. Before it began, there was an explanation how the Indigenous ceremony was considered to be “sacred
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Bush party homicide trial: Victim’s dad back on stand as Crown closes case

London Free Press
The final Crown witness at Carlos Guerra Guerra’s second-degree murder trial was the first witness the jury heard from when the trial began in mid-October.
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Fearful texts sent from accused’s cellphone heard at bush party homicide trial

London Free Press
A cellphone belonging to the accused in a 2021 bush party homicide was used to search news reports about the fatal attack
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Grieving mom testifies at trial of man accused in ex-girlfriend’s heroin death

London Free Press
Cynthia Beer woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of her granddaughter crying.
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Bush bash homicide trial: Witness testifies to seeing accused killer with gun

London Free Press
The plan was Mackenzie Tulloch would drive to London, pick up his then-girlfriend and head right back to Hamilton.
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Bush bash homicide trial resumes with one defendant, not two

London Free Press
The bush party homicide trial continued Thursday, but with only one, not two, defendants.
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Co-accused in teen’s fatal shooting at bush party now facing reduced charge

London Free Press
A murder charge has been reduced to manslaughter for one of two people on trial for the shooting death of a Western University student.
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Man who vanished while on bail finally sentenced for fatal 2015 shooting

London Free Press
The first moments of Ali Fageer’s sentencing hearing began with an apology – not from the man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but from the judge.
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