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Parents say daycare operator's sex crimes shattered families
Jeffrey Wills is the last man you want running the neighbourhood daycare, and on Monday, the parents of his young victims stood in court and said his evil deeds had shattered their lives. Saying they...
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Ottawa man spared jail for threats against mayor, OC Transpo
A man who threatened to kill Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and bomb OC Transpo buses has pleaded guilty and apologized in writing. Christopher Bartraw, 28, was arrested in December after using transit...
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Ottawa 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...
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Ottawa terror suspect wins release from solitary, transfer to Napanee jail
Accused Ottawa terrorist Ashton Larmond is getting out of solitary confinement at the Innes Road jail after six months and will be transferred to a detention centre in Napanee where he will await trial...
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Optometrist snared in Vanier john sweep told police he 'hated these women'
Optometrist Bassam Aabed had driven by an undercover officer posing as a prostitute on Lafontaine Street three times before deciding to pull over, some 200 metres away, to mix himself a rum and Coke...
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Accused 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...
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Ottawa 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...
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CSIS warned accused terrorist's jailhouse attacker about death threats
Days after inmate Terrence Wilson viciously beat accused terrorist Carlos Larmond at the Innes Road jail in March, a CSIS agent warned Wilson that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had learned...
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Ottawa killer needs hospital, not prison: lawyer
The case, Ottawa lawyer Sean May said in his final address to the judge, was sad all around. His client, Mark Haslett, is the delusional killer found guilty of manslaughter — but not murder as charged...
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Ottawa 'honour' killer wins parole review
Enraged that she might be cheating on him, Adi Humaid chased his wife down and stabbed her to death on the afternoon of Oct. 14, 1999, then went for sweets and coffee with friends. The Dubai engineer...
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Ottawa optometrist guilty on weapons charges
An Ottawa optometrist who negotiated to pay $50 for sex with an undercover female officer in Vanier was acquitted Monday on solicitation charges, but was convicted of refusing a breathalyzer test,...
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Ottawa sex slave trial: 'I kept begging them to stop': teen girl
In a horrifying account of being hog-tied and gagged, then repeatedly raped in a Nepean basement by a young couple, a teen girl told police in 2014 that she was screaming in pain and begging them to...
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Teen denies fabricating sex-slave story to stay out of trouble with parents
A teenaged girl who alleges she was held as a sex slave by an Ottawa couple told a defence lawyer on Tuesday that she didn’t fabricate her rape story to get out of trouble for being a “naughty girl.”...
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'She wanted to move away. She didn't even want to be in the same city as...
The teenaged girls who say they were forcibly confined and sexually assaulted in a Nepean basement on the 2014 Victoria Day weekend felt so devastated and unsafe after the alleged attacks that they...
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'I was trying to finish her off,' teen told police after stabbing mother to...
Moments after his mother grabbed him as they argued about his being late for school again, Chris Gobin choked her until she could barely breathe, then went to the kitchen, got a steak knife and started...
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Ottawa couple found guilty in sex-slave case
A Nepean couple who used teenaged girls as sex slaves in a basement on the 2014 Victoria Day weekend has been convicted after a five-day trial. Both of the 16-year-old girls testified in court and gave...
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'I thought I was looking at a ghost.' Child abuse trial of Mountie, wife
It had been at least six months since the neighbours had laid eyes on the malnourished 11-year-old boy found wandering through snowy Kanata backyards in search of water on Feb. 12, 2013. One neighbour...
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'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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Judge gives man eight-year sentence for killing whistling roommate
In the days leading to the morning that he stabbed his roommate to death because he wouldn’t stop whistling, Mark Haslett had become what the judge called “the prisoner of paranoid delusions.” On...
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Video: Inside the jailhouse beating of Carlos Larmond
A jailhouse video capturing the vicious beating of accused terrorist Carlos Larmond can now be seen after a judge released it to the press on Thursday. Terrence Wilson and another prisoner unleashed...
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