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Jury finds Adrian Daou guilty of killing Jennifer Stewart
Adrian Daou was condemned to life in prison on Wednesday for the 2010 axe killing of Jennifer Stewart, a 36-year-old Vanier mom he chose as his ‘perfect score’ in a murder plot for notorious hip-hop...
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Ottawa paintballer made $550,000 to spy on ISIL network
The informant who befriended and spied on suspected members of an ISIL terror network in Ottawa was paid at least $550,000 during the two-year RCMP investigation, the Citizen has learned. The...
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Ottawa murder suspect Jacques 'Porkchop' Rouschop denied medical bail
A career criminal Ottawa police have linked to the 2013 Amy Paul homicide was denied medical bail on Tuesday. The evidence at the hearing is under a publication ban but it can be reported that a...
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Ottawa axe killer appeals conviction
Adrian “Mook” Daou, the Vanier rapper serving life in prison for the 2010 axe killing of Jennifer Stewart, a 36-year-old street prostitute, has filed an appeal, asking the Ontario Court of Appeal to...
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Good Samaritan who wrestled with hammer attacker doesn't recognize accused in...
The Good Samaritan who chased and then struggled face-to-face with a hammer attack suspect minutes after a woman was bashed in the head in broad daylight in 2011 testified Wednesday that he didn’t...
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Witness who called police on hammer-attack suspect wanted reward
If it had been any other crime, Craig Osborn said he wouldn’t have called police on Nabil Benhsaien when he recognized him in a newspaper story about a suspect wanted in five broad-daylight hammer...
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Ottawa gang sex attack trial hears about girl's screams
Mary Asanansi figured it was the janitors who were arguing when she heard loud voices after pulling up to work in Ottawa’s east end on the morning of Aug. 11, 2013. Then she heard a girl screaming,...
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Ottawa jury at hammer-attacks trial hears damning DNA evidence
A DNA expert testified Monday that the odds a genetic profile left at a 2011 crime scene belonged to someone other than Nabil Benhsaien were, in a sample lifted from a hammer, one in 10 quadrillion,...
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'I'm not a beast,' hammer attack suspect told police
In a bizarre interview with Ottawa police on Oct. 28, 2013, the suspect in vicious hammer attacks on five women denied committing them and declared that the city was a jungle full of beasts. “That’s...
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Ex-realtor Chris Hoare sentenced to 11 years for trying to kill wife with...
Chris Hoare’s elaborate lie finally came to an end on Wednesday with the top-listing real estate agent escorted to prison for trying to beat his wife to death with a baseball bat on the morning of...
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Teen tells court of sex attack: 'I felt helpless … they were four guys'
The 15-year-old girl was trying to find the right bus stop to get to her grandmother’s when four young men pushed her into the bushes near the OC Transpo Blair Station and surrounded her on the morning...
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Defence attorney attacks credibility of Ottawa girl in alleged gang sex...
A defence attorney launched an attack on the credibility of a teenaged girl who alleges that she was sexually assaulted by four people at OC Transpo Blair Station in 2013. In an intense...
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Security guard didn't hear girl's screams, trial told
A security guard on a smoke break some 150 metres away from an alleged gang rape near OC Transpo Blair Station on the morning of Aug. 11, 2013, says he didn’t hear the 15-year-old girl’s screams. Peter...
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Defence lawyer urges jurors to acquit accused in hammer attack case
In a dramatic closing address to the jury, defence lawyer Joseph Addelman noted that there was not a shred of evidence against his client in three of the five hammer attacks on five Ottawa women from...
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Ottawa man killed over a smoke, trial told
Navid Niran died because he wanted a cigarette, the Crown told an Ottawa jury on Tuesday. On Jan. 21, 2012, the 24-year-old father of a newborn son was celebrating a friend’s birthday at a Dalhousie...
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Witness says friends of stabbing victim feared there would be trouble
In the hours before a drunken Navid Niran was stabbed to death outside a Dalhousie Street nightclub on Jan. 22, 2012, his friend kept a close watch on him for fear Niran would lose his temper without...
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Jury sees chilling video of Market stabbing death
Jurors sat statue-still at the first-degree murder trial of Ahmed Hafizi on Thursday, their eyes fixed on chilling video footage showing the killing of Navid Niran outside a ByWard Market nightclub...
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Accused Ottawa killer was bullied by victim, court told
In the hours before a drunken Navid Niran was knifed to death outside a ByWard Market nightclub on Jan. 22, 2012, he was leading a gang of bullies inside who repeatedly picked on the man on trial for...
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No pancakes for you: Ottawa jail stops hot breakfasts
The food had never been so good at the Old Innes Road jail. For the past three weeks, inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre have been raving about the “strike food” — meals that were...
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Slain Ottawa man was facing sex charges against minor, murder trial told
On the night a drunken and belligerent Navid Niran was knifed to death outside a ByWard Market nightclub, he told a friend he was worried about going to jail for a sexual assault charge involving a...
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