Ottawa man accused of killing sisters now in hospital, misses third court...
Musab A-Noor, accused of killing his two sisters on Friday night, missed his third appearance in Ottawa’s mental health court on Wednesday because he has been admitted to hospital. A-Noor, 29, was...
View ArticleHow the RCMP came to use Abdullah Milton against an Ottawa terror cluster
The prized RCMP agent who infiltrated an ISIL network in Ottawa says he got into the spy business by accident. It was January 2011, and Abdullah Milton was in Ottawa for the first time. “I was a...
View ArticleOttawa man accused of killing his two sisters found unfit for trial
Musab A-Noor, accused of killing his two sisters last month, has been found unfit for trial. A-Noor, 29, remains in hospital and missed another hearing Wednesday morning in Ottawa’s mental health...
View ArticleCrown drops charges against suspected Ottawa terrorist Tevis Gonyou-McLean
Federal prosecutors have dropped their case against suspected Ottawa terrorist Tevis Gonyou-McLean, who stood accused of threatening to avenge last year’s death of ISIL supporter Aaron Driver....
View ArticleOttawa man, accused of killing sisters, diagnosed with schizophrenia
Musab A-Noor, accused of killing his two sisters last month, made his first court appearance Friday via video, sitting statue-still with a towel over his head while staring out the window of a...
View ArticleMentally ill drug addict or terrorist? Gonyou-McLean released from jail
By all accounts, Tevis Gonyou-McLean has been punished enough. And so Ontario Court Justice Matthew Webber agreed to release the suspected terrorist from jail after he pleaded guilty to two counts of...
View ArticleProm night killing trial sees chilling final images of Brandon Volpi
It would be a month before the police, and time, caught up with Devontay Hackett. Wanted in the 2014 prom-night slaying of Brandon Volpi, Hackett was later arrested in Toronto, and while his life on...
View ArticleOttawa's Prom Night Killing: Lawyer says no knife in accused's hand
The police case against accused prom-night killer Devontay Hackett is anchored in video and DNA evidence. And on Wednesday, the jury at his second-degree murder trial again was shown a key video of the...
View ArticleOttawa prom night victim's dying words: 'Who did this? Who did this?'
Seconds after Brandon Volpi was slashed in the throat and stabbed in the heart on his prom night, he clutched his bleeding neck and shouted angrily, “Who did this? Who did this?” The St. Patrick’s High...
View ArticleProm murder trial: Friend turned to Volpi for help before deadly brawl, court...
The Class of 2014 prom was doomed before it began, and young, unarmed Brandon Volpi —slashed in the throat and knifed in the heart — would be dead nine minutes before sunup. One week before the deadly...
View ArticleProm murder trial: Defence attacks Crown witness over changing story
The lawyer defending accused prom-night killer Devontay Hackett chipped away Tuesday at a Crown witness’s version of events leading to the 2014 slaying of Brandon Volpi. Under cross-examination by...
View ArticleRCMP agent also paid by CSIS to spy on terror suspect: court
The prized RCMP agent who infiltrated an ISIL network in Ottawa was also paid by CSIS to spy on one of the same terror targets years earlier. The new details in the RCMP case against accused terrorism...
View ArticleProm night killing: Slain grad had consumed very little alcohol before he died
It has been billed as a drunken, deadly prom-night brawl, but the young St. Pat’s grad who was slashed and stabbed to death on June 7, 2014, arguably had the clearest mind, as toxicology results show...
View ArticleProm murder trial sees accused killer's video
The homicide detective kept pressing Devontay Hackett to come clean about the 2014 prom killing of St. Patrick’s high school grad Brandon Volpi. Det. Chris Benson said he knew the how, the where and...
View ArticleOttawa prom night killing: Accused killer didn't have knife, witness says
The defence team for accused prom-night killer Devontay Hackett launched its case on Monday with explosive testimony from a witness who placed the murder weapon in another man’s hand. Danielle Saunders...
View ArticleOttawa prom night killing: Witness tells two different stories
Prosecutors in the case against accused prom-night killer Devontay Hackett branded a key defence witness a liar on Tuesday, suggesting she didn’t actually see anyone with a knife in the 2014 brawl that...
View ArticleArmed with a box-cutter and wearing gloves, accused killer came looking for...
When the east-end stripper tried to break free from his grip, Carson Morin said she had to learn the hard way. So the pimp showed up at her friend’s Orleans home wearing surgical gloves, armed with a...
View ArticleOrléans pimp promised stripper easy money, murder trial hears
The young Orléans woman was easy pickings for Carson Morin, a 20-year-old pimp in the suburbs who wanted to build a network of strippers. She was making minimum wage at The Shoe Company and had a...
View ArticleProm night killing: 'We ask you to believe your eyes.' Two tales of the tape
On the eve of its deliberations, the jury in the second-degree murder trial of accused prom-night killer Devontay Hackett was asked to believe two wildly different interpretations of the key video that...
View Article'It doesn't bring my son back': Hackett found guilty in deadly prom night brawl
It may have felt like justice, but there was little to celebrate. Danny Volpi, father of Brandon Volpi — the 18-year-old St. Patrick’s High School grad who was slashed to death on his prom night —...
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