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Accused serial rapist dead after suicide in Ottawa jail
The brother of an alleged serial rapist who died by suicide inside solitary confinement on Tuesday morning at the beleaguered Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre says the system killed his brother. Yousef...
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'He looks like he's losing his brains': Man kept in solitary for 18 months...
Up until his arrest on murder charges in 2013, Mutiur Rehman’s life had been pretty routine as far as up-and-coming crack dealers go. He had his share of fights, and a chaotic childhood that some men...
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Jury selection begins in trial of man accused of killing two sex workers
Jury selection was underway Monday at the first-degree murder trial of Marc Leduc, accused of killing two women linked to Ottawa’s drugs-for-sex street trade. Leduc, 59, has pleaded not guilty. His...
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Inmate heard yelling out he planned to kill himself prior to suicide
Hours before he hanged himself in solitary confinement at the Ottawa jail last week, Yousef Hussein, 27, was yelling that he was going to kill himself, according to an inmate who was locked up only a...
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Ottawa teacher faces sex charges involving student
A Gatineau man who was employed as a teacher in Ottawa faces charges of sexual assault and sexual interference following allegations that he inappropriately touched one of his students and was heard...
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Jury at Leduc trial hears he had motive and opportunity to kill
In life, Pamela Kosmack and Leeanne Lawson were strangers, both vulnerable women who turned to the sex trade to feed their hard drug habit. Their only connection was their killer, and notably how he...
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Leduc trial: Accused killer considered going to victim's funeral, Crown says
Pamela Kosmack may have known her accused killer, but they were anything but friends. Both Kosmack and Marc Leduc were regulars at the rough-and-tumble Royal Britannia Pub, a since-closed watering hole...
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Mountie who chained son in basement testifies in own defence
The RCMP officer who chained and shackled his naked 11-year-old son in a darkened Kanata basement only to starve and torture him took the stand in his own defence Monday, saying he feared his boy would...
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'I burned him because I felt the devil lived in him,' ex-Mountie tells...
A former RCMP counter-terrorism officer who tortured and starved his 11-year-old son in a darkened Kanata basement says he did it because he thought the boy was possessed. The father took the stand in...
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Mountie had priest perform exorcism on 'possessed' son
The Mountie on trial for torturing and starving his 11-year-old son enlisted his brother — a priest — to perform an exorcism on the “possessed” boy. “I thought the devil’s inside him. I saw his eyes...
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Mountie in child-torture trial told 911: 'I did bad things to him. I regret it'
On the day the 11-year-old boy finally broke loose from his chains and escaped his Kanata basement, his abusive father called 911 to report him missing. It was a call for help, but it sounded more like...
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'You will weep blood': Ottawa Mountie terrorizes son in video
The defining images of Ottawa’s child-torture case — the most horrific police officers say they’ve seen — were revisited Friday, showing the interrogation a former RCMP counter-terrorism investigator...
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Another Ontario jail boss dismissed
Another Ontario jail boss has been dismissed amid a spotlight on conditions at provincial jails. Karen Barclay, the superintendent of the Brockville Jail and St. Lawrence Valley Correctional Centre has...
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Mountie accused of torturing son has unsupervised visits with children
The Mountie on trial for torturing and starving his shackled, naked 11-year-old son in a darkened Kanata basement is free on bail and has unsupervised weekend visits with his two other sons, who are...
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Brazeau's darkest hour: 'I let a lot of people down'
Senator Patrick Brazeau has broken his silence about his darkest hour — the night he slit his throat with a cleaver and started bleeding to death on the kitchen floor. It was Jan. 18 and Brazeau had...
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Code Maple Leaf: Stephen Harper's secret plan for going to the hospital
In the weeks after a high-profile 2014 ambulance call to help a drunken teen at 24 Sussex Dr., Ottawa paramedics helped draft a confidential response protocol with special provisions to ensure Stephen...
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Ottawa police used ruse to get DNA from murder accused
As far as the police were concerned, accused killer Gurpreet Ronald sealed her own fate — or, at least, licked it. In some remarkable detective work, Ottawa police investigating the Jan. 29, 2014,...
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OC Transpo drivers on trial for murder called victim 'The Devil, Nazi woman,'...
The accused killers — secret lovers who worked the same shifts as OC Transpo drivers — sat quietly, a few feet apart in the prisoner’s box Thursday as their first-degree murder trial heard testimony...
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Psychic grilled at murder trial of OC Transpo drivers
It wasn’t just any nod. This was a nod — up and down for Yes — from OC Transpo driver Bhupinderpal Gill, and he was agreeing with his mistress when she told a psychic that the secret lovers would do...
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'There was blood everywhere': Barrhaven girl tells of finding dead mother
She was the last to see her mother alive, and the first to find her dead. The girl had stayed home from school that day — Jan. 29, 2014 — to look after her mom as she recovered from surgery. The girl...
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