After almost 250 days, Ottawa man accused in two killings wants out of...
The last time they let Mohamad Barkhadle out of jail, he went on to be accused of even worse crimes against women — including the 2017 slaying of a single mom. Her body wasn’t discovered for 10 days...
View Article'Depraved conduct': Ottawa man jailed five years for molesting daughter,...
Justice Hugh Fraser has presided over some pretty disturbing cases in his 25 years on the bench — everything from torture to kidnapping — but he’d never come across a case quite like this, nothing this...
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Justice for Abdirahman Abdi vigil held on eve of officer's trial
They started marching in a silent, candlelit vigil for Abdirahman Abdi just steps from his front door, where the Somali man died in police handcuffs, bleeding and facedown on a Sunday in July 2016....
View ArticleOttawa father jailed for five years for incest, child porn
Her daughter had always asked questions, but this one made for the longest drive home. She had been having sex with her dad and wanted to know if it was against the law. The mother said incest was...
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'A tragic accident': Ottawa truck driver found not guilty in 2016 death of...
Not every deadly crash is a crime, and the one that claimed the life of cyclist Nusrat Jahan in 2016 has been ruled a tragic accident. On Tuesday, Ontario Court Justice David Berg acquitted Steven...
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Accused killer confesses to McDonald's stabbing even though he says he can't...
Jorden Larocque-Laplante says he was so drunk he doesn’t remember killing Abdullah Al-Tutunji outside the McDonald’s on a Sunday morning. But after reviewing security video in court, he confessed on...
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Manslaughter or murder: Final arguments made in 2016 killing of Carleton student
Abdullah Al-Tutunji escaped the chaos of Iraq as a boy only to be knifed to death years later in a savage, racially-motivated attack by a drunken stranger outside the McDonald’s on Meadowlands Drive....
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New details emerge as search for Susan Kuplu's body in city dump continues
In her last moments of life, Susan Kuplu demanded her daughter kill her, according to the working police theory on how and why Lennese Kublu allegedly knifed her mother to death. According to the...
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'You stole him away': Carleton student's killer found guilty of 2016 murder
In the end, Jorden Larocque-Laplante’s story that he was so drunk he couldn’t remember killing Abdullah Al-Tutunji was too convenient and unworthy of belief. Larocque-Laplante, 22, was found guilty...
View ArticleFormer Carleton student pleads guilty to child-porn charges
Jason Sawyer, a 21-year-old former Carleton University student, sat outside Courtroom No. 12 on Thursday reading a book next to his mom, who was also reading a paperback. They had time to kill because...
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'Rot in hell': Andy Nevin's family won't forgive 'heartless monster' who...
It was the cops, not his conscience, that caught up with Deinsberg St-Hilaire. Hilaire, 42, had no intention of turning himself in for the June 28, 2015 hit-and-run that killed Andy Nevin, who was...
View Article'It felt like torture': Accused killer Lennese Kublu describes the police...
Exhausted and crying, Lennese Kublu, 18, kept telling the Ottawa detective she didn’t want to talk or answer questions about the Jan. 10 killing of her mother in the townhouse they shared on Penny...
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'Butcher of Gatineau' granted parole, wants to live quiet life as new person
Khaled Farhan, dubbed The Butcher of Gatineau by the press in 1999 after killing and then dismembering his lover days later, has won parole with the hopes of starting a new, quiet life as a transgender...
View ArticleCrown drops case against Ottawa brothers accused in 2012 home invasion
Richard and Geovanni Ellis stood in Ottawa court last month and braced for another fight to finally clear their names in a violent and bloody 2012 home invasion that targeted a reputed drug dealer and...
View ArticleSt. Pat's auto shop teacher denies molesting girls at school
Robert Lavergne is not like the other teachers at St. Patrick’s Catholic High School. He’s an auto shop teacher, 55 years old — the one who hugged the girls as they walked into his class. Lavergne also...
View ArticleEx-Ottawa Gee-Gees equipment manager gets 8 years for sex crimes
When Cameron Lyons wasn’t volunteering as equipment manager for the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees, he was targeting teen girls as young as 14 under the guise of recruiting them as models and...
View ArticleOttawa constable guilty of unlawful entry, spared criminal record
It was Jan. 16, 2018, and Ottawa police Const. Marcel Allen, coming up on 25 years on the job, was acting on suspicion and impulse when he burst into a family’s east-end home to confront a teen he...
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'Just shoot me, I want to die' accused erratic driver told police after...
Moments after blazing a terrifying trail behind the wheel of a stolen van that crashed into two cars, only to speed onto the University of Ottawa pedestrian walkway and nearly hit several students as...
View ArticleAccused of sexually assaulting pregnant girlfriend, OPP officer wins stay...
An OPP officer who was to be prosecuted this week in Ottawa on charges that he sexually assaulted his pregnant girlfriend in 2017 was spared trial because it took too long to get to court, with the...
View ArticleMan who killed Ottawa cyclist obstructed justice because he feared racist...
An Ottawa landscaper who covered his tracks and hid from police after a deadly hit-and-run has been spared jail time by a judge who accepted his explanation that a fear of turning himself in was...
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