Crown drops assault charges against Ottawa police officers
The criminal assault case against two Ottawa police officers has been withdrawn by the Crown because there is no reasonable prospect of conviction. The assault charges were laid by the Special...
View ArticleHusband used 'child's bat' because he didn't intend to kill: defence
Had former Ottawa realtor Chris Hoare really wanted to kill his wife on the morning of April 2, 2014, he would have used the hatchet from the garage or the butcher’s knife from the kitchen — anything...
View ArticleGrandfather jailed for sexually abusing girl: 'You simply abused her love,'...
Through horrendous acts of sexual abuse, an Ottawa man has stolen his granddaughter’s innocence, a judge said Wednesday as she sentenced the 72-year-old to five years in prison. Ontario Court Justice...
View ArticleTroubled lover who killed Chip Truck Tony sentenced to 8 more months
In the end, nobody believed Rachelle Denis. She was the killer in the prisoner’s box who often looked distant. The only time her eyes lit up was when the jury heard testimony about her child-like purse...
View ArticleEx-senator's wife charged with assaulting police, using lit cigarette as weapon
Maygan Sensenberger is in trouble with the law again. The 26-year-old actress and wife of retired senator Rod Zimmer has been accused of attacking two people at an Ottawa medical clinic with a lit...
View ArticleOttawa military man charged after dog found in dumpster
A young military corporal has been charged with two counts of animal cruelty after authorities say he abandoned his Bernese mountain dog in a garbage dumpster back in February. The dog had been thrown...
View ArticleNancy Lane murder trial ends in surprise manslaughter plea
Nancy Lane, the former nurse and Prescott town councillor on trial for first-degree murder in the 2009 death of her husband, pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge of manslaughter after a new...
View ArticleOttawa realtor guilty of trying to kill wife with baseball bat
Ottawa realtor Chris Hoare lived an elaborate lie for years, presenting himself as a family man so devout that he didn’t show houses on weekends, but still somehow made enough money to cover all the...
View Article'I'm bleeding to death' victim pleads in chilling 911 call played at murder...
The jury at the rooming-house murder trial of Mark Haslett heard a chilling 911 call on Tuesday from his alleged victim just minutes after he had been stabbed in the stomach on the night of Feb. 11,...
View ArticleOttawa murder suspect returned to the scene of the crime, jury hears
Mark Haslett was the last man police thought would return to the scene of the crime. But some two hours and 20 minutes after Rolland (Rolly) Laflamme, 54, was knifed in the stomach at his Carling...
View ArticleOttawa officer pleads guilty to drunk driving
An Ottawa Police constable stood in court Friday and apologized for driving drunk and hitting a parked car on a quiet Orléans street last March. Const. Brodie Muldoon, well-liked among even criminal...
View ArticleOttawa terror suspect Suliman Mohamed denied bail
Ottawa’s Suliman Mohamed, arrested in an RCMP terrorism probe in January, has been denied bail after an eight-day hearing. “We’re profoundly disappointed with her worship’s decision and right now we’re...
View ArticleInside the jailhouse beating of Carlos Larmond: Terror twin recruiting...
Carlos Larmond’s time in jail since his arrest on terrorism charges in January has been anything but quiet, with him allegedly trying to recruit “soldiers of Islam” and ending up on the wrong side of a...
View ArticleOttawa terror twins' dad blames sons' case for drug relapse
Tony Larmond has stress like no other federal inmate doing time for bank robbery. His twin sons, raised by their grandmother in Vanier, are facing trial on terrorism charges and it was under this...
View ArticleMan convicted of sex attack on girl, 11, when judge rejects 'preposterous' alibi
The 11-year-old girl wearing overalls and a T-shirt didn’t have far to go on the night of June 27, 1997. Just a quick bike ride from her mom’s to her dad’s, through Hampton Park in Ottawa’s west end....
View ArticleOttawa man frightened after accused attackers acquitted, freed
That Calvin Nicol was savagely beaten in a random 2014 attack on Rideau Street has never been in question, but the case against his accused attackers has had uncertainty from the beginning. On Tuesday,...
View ArticleOttawa daycare provider jailed for sex crimes
The Ottawa daycare owner who preyed on two young girls in his care is going to prison. Jeffrey Wills, 41, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison and will be banned from any public place...
View ArticleAccused in stabbing death of Ottawa teen to learn bail fate in September
The teen accused of killing 18-year-old Connor Stevenson in an apparent drug deal gone wrong in April will find out next month if he’ll win bail while awaiting trial for second-degree murder. The...
View ArticleOttawa woman who killed chip-truck owner denied parole
Rachelle Denis, the Ottawa mother of five who stalked her estranged lover at his home and chip truck and later killed him, has been denied parole. Denis was sentenced in May for killing onetime secret...
View Article'He was just bones, you could see every rib': Child abuse trial of Mountie, wife
The father of an 11-year-old boy reported missing on the night of Feb. 12, 2013 portrayed his son as “out of control” and warned a responding police constable that she might find bruises on his body...
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