Clik here to view.
'Mastermind' in 2010 killing of Barrhaven teen gets nine years
The so-called mastermind in the 2010 killing of Barrhaven teen Michael Swan was sentenced Thursday to nine years in a case the judge called a deadly betrayal of friendship. Mike Swan’s parents had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'He was scared for his life': Ottawa stripper's pimp says he killed in...
Carson Morin says he killed out of fear, not greed. The Orleans man, just 20 at the time, was running strippers and one of them had left his grip and cut him out of the profits. When he went to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ottawa triple-murder trial: 'He belittled me all the time,' accused killer's...
Ian Bush’s wife didn’t know anything about the toolkit for murder down in the basement. But she certainly recognized the bag. “It’s my old briefcase,” she testified at her ex-husband’s triple-murder...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Former Ottawa Mountie who tortured, starved son appeals sentence
The ex-RCMP counter terrorism investigator who starved and tortured his 11-year-old son in a Kanata basement in 2013 is appealing his sentence, complaining that the trial judge failed to attach enough...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accused Jasmine Crescent killer free on bail
The college student accused of killing 18-year-old Connor Stevenson in the sixth-floor stairwell at 2020 Jasmine Cres. in 2015 has been freed on bail while he awaits trial for second-degree murder....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ottawa killer free on bail, living 800 metres from victim's parents
Sam Tsega, convicted in the 2010 execution-style killing of Barrhaven teen Michael Swan, has been freed on bail less than two months after he was sentenced to prison, and now lives 800 metres down the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ottawa terrorism suspect breaches conditions again, allegedly steals food...
Broke and hungry, suspected Ottawa terrorist Tevis Gonyou-McLean is accused of stealing groceries in Westboro. Gonyou-McLean, 25, was charged with theft and breaching his terrorism peace bond after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'I regret my actions,' accused Ottawa serial rapist tells court
In the face of graphic video and photo evidence of him exploiting drugged-out women, Phillip Wilson finally said it was wrong. The Ottawa drug dealer accused of drugging, raping and videotaping more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drug dealer convicted of murder, Ottawa judge warns others to leave the life...
Michael Belleus, just 25, could have done anything with his life but he chose to pick up a gun with an eye to so-called easy money in the city’s deadly crack trade. And on Wednesday, just as most folks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ottawa's Facebook predator held victim in dog cage for ransom: Crown
They had just returned from a round of golf, laid out the appetizers and poured the wine when the doorbell rang. The young man outside, wearing only underwear, was shivering. He was muddy, his face was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Woman sues Barrhaven slo-pitch league for $1M
It was the day slo-pitch in Barrhaven turned ugly, when scoring a run for an out-of-control runner meant bowling over the catcher at home plate, leaving her with permanent injuries, according to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accused Ottawa killer had previously avoided dangerous-offender tag
Mohamad S. Barkhadle looked confused Thursday as he appeared in an Ottawa court on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of the woman whose toddler son spent 10 days fending for himself after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'I lost everything': Ottawa man loses home after false fentanyl bust
The Ottawa police drug squad didn’t waste time or take any chances when it got a complaint that fentanyl was being sold out of a public housing unit on Caldwell Avenue. All of the evidence —...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arnprior doctor, hospital sued in $5-million malpractice claim
When Ray Nicholas noticed a bump on his stomach, he went to see his family doctor and was advised it was likely a hernia, and that there was no need for treatment. A month later, in July 2015, he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OC Transpo driver accused in child sex crimes case
An OC Transpo driver accused of sexually abusing three young boys from 2012 to 2016 is now facing charges of threatening to kill one of their parents. Philip Herbert, the accused child-sex criminal, is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jasmine Crescent killers plead guilty to manslaughter
Issaiah Clachar, just 17, used to tell his mother he’d go far in life, and well beyond his family apartment on Jasmine Crescent. But, in the end, he was killed just steps from his building after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CBC's Carol Off shocked to be on killer's hit list, not sure how she got there
CBC Radio host Carol Off said Thursday she doesn’t think she’s ever met Ian Bush, the convicted killer who put her name on a hit list. Off, the host of the national radio program As It Happens, was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ottawa drug dealer gets life sentence for 2016 murder of 'gentle soul'...
In a most rare scene at the Ottawa courthouse on Tuesday, a young police officer stood and read a victim-impact statement at a killer’s sentencing hearing. It wasn’t on behalf of the victim’s family,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ottawa sex-shame attack was videotaped, posted on Facebook
One of the darkest moments in Ottawa’s tight-knit Congolese community unfolded on July 3, 2015, when a young woman was viciously degraded by jealous attackers who kidnapped her and later pinned her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Secret CSIS files assess paid RCMP spy in Ottawa terror case as 'parasitic'...
If the big RCMP case against accused terrorism financier and star recruiter Awso Peshdary ever gets to trial, the credibility of the Mounties’ star witness — a paid agent — will be severely tested. And...
View Article