Melissa Richmond was killed by husband exactly how she feared
Melissa Richmond was killed by her husband exactly how she feared. Melissa, 28, told a friend that she feared her husband would “snap” during one of their masochistic encounters and kill her in a PTSD...
View ArticleOttawa drug dealer killed to launch hip hop career, says Crown
Adrian Daou was working as a dishwasher and drug dealer when he hatched a murder plot in the summer of 2010 with the hopes that killer status would launch his dream career as a hip hop star, court...
View ArticleInmate told Ottawa guard, 'I'd like to confess to a murder,' trial hears
Innes Road jail guard Bryan Chapman was doing his morning rounds in the segregation unit on Feb. 25, 2013, when Adrian Daou looked out through his window slot in Cell No. 3 and declared that he wanted...
View ArticleTow truck driver charged in deadly crash gets bail
The 22-year-old tow-truck driver charged in Sunday’s deadly crash that killed a 55-year-old Ottawa father and severely injured his 13-year-old daughter was granted bail on Thursday. Mohamed Haj-Saleh...
View ArticleNo evidence killer knew about wife's affair, but 'nobody's that daft', expert...
A forensic psychiatrist who assessed wife killer Howard Richmond testified Friday that, while he didn’t find any evidence that the soldier knew his wife was having an affair, “nobody’s that daft.”...
View ArticleAccused killer haunted by victim's 'ghost'
Even the police detective wasn’t convinced right away that aspiring rapper Adrian Daou was telling the truth when he confessed to axing Jennifer Stewart to death in a Vanier parking lot on the night of...
View ArticleAxe-killing accused told different versions in confessions: court
When Adrian Daou confessed to the 2010 axe-killing of a Vanier prostitute, the 24-year-old aspiring rapper originally told police: “I kept it to myself.” But in a followup interview the next day, Feb....
View ArticlePolice have yet to interview key witness in 2010 Jennifer Stewart homicide,...
The lead detective working the 2010 axe killing of Vanier prostitute Jennifer Stewart has been unable to interview a key witness believed to have dumped the murder weapon, and testified on Wednesday...
View ArticleCrown calls crack addict to testify at trial for axe slaying of Jennifer Stewart
Ann Robitaille couldn’t sit still on the witness stand, and her testimony was anything but steady. The crack addict who turns tricks to feed her addiction was called to court on Thursday by the Crown...
View ArticleVanier rapper told girlfriend he killed sex-trade worker, court hears
Months after sex-trade worker Jennifer Stewart was axed to death in a Vanier parking lot on Aug. 19, 2010, Adrian Daou confessed to his girlfriend that he was the one who swung the axe until Stewart...
View ArticlePolice didn't believe accused killer's confession to second homicide, court...
It had been nine days since his last confession. Adrian Daou, a 24-year-old Vanier rapper desperate to get out of Innes Road jail’s segregation unit, wanted another trip to Ottawa police headquarters...
View ArticleHoward Richmond found guilty of first-degree murder of wife, Melissa
In the end, nobody believed Howard Richmond. After eight weeks of testimony, highlighted by expert medical evidence about the soldier’s state of mind when he killed his wife, Melissa, on the night of...
View ArticleKey evidence at Ottawa axe-killing trial – a CDN Tire 'shopping trip for...
The key piece of evidence in the circumstantial case against Vanier rapper Adrian “Mook” Daou is a shopping-trip-for-murder receipt from Canadian Tire, where Daou said he bought the items he used to...
View ArticlePsychologist says accused told him he was 'possessed' days before confessing
Days before Vanier rapper Adrian “Mook” Daou confessed to the 2010 axe killing of sex worker Jennifer Stewart, he told a jailhouse psychologist that he was possessed and needed to cut off his finger to...
View ArticleOttawa optometrist banned from Vanier after solicitation acquittal
A prominent Ottawa optometrist who negotiated to pay $50 for sex with an undercover female police officer posing as a prostitute in 2013 has been banned from Vanier for a year and fined $4,000. Bassam...
View ArticleVanier rapper bragged online that he was going to kill: murder trial
A year and a half before Jennifer Stewart was axed to death in a Vanier parking lot on Aug. 19, 2010, rapper Adrian “Mook” Daou bragged online about murdering so he could nail down the “real killing...
View ArticleVanier rapper's murder confession doesn't fit crime: defence lawyer
Everything about Adrian Daou’s murder confession is so unreliable that it’s like trying to shove a square peg into a round hole, his defence lawyer told the jury at his first-degree murder trial...
View ArticleOttawa john in teen pimp case gets year in jail for sex assault
Joseph Donnelly, the only john arrested in Ottawa’s notorious teen pimp case, hugged his family goodbye Monday before he was led away in handcuffs to serve a year in jail for raping a 17-year-old girl...
View ArticleJury deliberating fate of Vanier rapper on trial for axe killing
The jury in the Vanier axe-killing trial is deliberating the fate of 24-year-old rapper Adrian Daou, accused of killing Jennifer Stewart for hip-hop fame. It is a circumstantial case anchored in Daou’s...
View ArticlePriest defends Ottawa Mountie on trial for child torture
A priest took the stand on Tuesday at the Elgin Street courthouse to testify in defence of his brother, a suspended RCMP counter-terrorist officer on trial for starving and torturing his 11-year-old...
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