Crown drops first-degree murder charges in 2015 gangland killing
The reputed street gang members were bracing for the legal fight of their young but storied careers — murder, in the first degree — but in an unexpected turn of events, the Crown has abandoned its case...
View ArticleGill murder trial: 'No one was crying,' friend recalls of hours after bloody...
If there is a normal way to act after your wife is found slashed and bludgeoned to death on the living room floor, this wasn’t it. It was Jan. 29, 2014, and just hours after Jagtar Gill was killed in...
View ArticleLawyer brands Crown witness in Gill murder trial a liar
The defence lawyer for an OC Transpo driver on trial in the killing of his wife attacked the credibility of a Crown witness on Monday, branding him a liar for testifying that the accused told his...
View ArticleGill trial: Bus driver washed knives used to kill wife
Bhupinderpal Gill didn’t do much around the house. His wife, Jagtar Gill, did the cooking and cleaning, the laundry and all the groceries. But on the afternoon of Jan. 29, 2014, it was Gill who was...
View ArticleBarrhaven homicide victim was vulnerable, drugged and recovering from surgery
Weakened from a flareup of Crohn’s disease and recovering from hernia surgery, Jagtar Gill was a most vulnerable victim when her killer came for her on Jan. 29, 2014. She still had a powerful...
View Article"I'm screwed. From every angle, I look guilty," says accused wife killer in...
In his own words, accused wife killer Bhupinderpal Gill figured he was screwed. No matter how you looked at it, he said, he looked guilty. He made the striking disclosure in an April 13, 2014,...
View ArticleGill trial: Accused wife killer said he deserved jail
Det. Chris Benson was finding it hard to believe Bhupinderpal Gill’s story because it kept changing every time he told it. It was the accused wife killer’s third police interview, but this one was the...
View ArticleAccused in Gill slaying texted offer to take victim's kids out for pizza
Days after police say Gurpreet Ronald slashed and bludgeoned her secret lover’s wife to death, she offered to take his grieving children out for pizza and a movie. “Just worried about you guys … Try to...
View ArticleGill trial: Accused wife-killer hid weapon for fear he'd be blamed, lawyer says
Bhupinderpal Gill hid the bloody murder weapon not because he killed his wife, but rather out of fear he’d be blamed for it, court heard on Friday. It was just before 1 p.m. on Jan. 29, 2014, when Gill...
View ArticleGill murder trial: Accused wife killer testifies that he asked mistress if...
Days after finding his wife dead on the living room floor,Bhupinderpal Gill confronted his mistress, asking if she was the one who slit his wife’s throat on their 17th wedding anniversary. Testifying...
View Article'Tragic and senseless': Final accomplice in killing of Barrhaven's Michael...
The last accomplice on trial for the 2010 execution-style killing of Barrhaven teenager Michael Swan was found guilty Thursday as the so-called mastermind behind the botched marijuana and money...
View ArticleGill murder trial: Accused only cared about herself, husband testifies
Jason Ronald’s no fool. He knew his wife was cheating on him. It was right in his face. “I would either wander off to another part of the house, or just leave. I didn’t want to be around them,” Ronald...
View ArticleGill murder trial: Accused killer offers surprise alibi
In a surprise alibi that silenced Court Room 34, Gurpreet Ronald’s defence team said Tuesday that their client was out having tea with a doctor when her lover’s wife was killed. In a brief yet strong...
View ArticleGill murder trial: 'I was shocked': Accused killer describes finding body of...
Gurpreet Ronald says she wishes she had just turned a heel the day she found her secret lover’s wife dead. It was Jan. 29, 2014, and Ronald said she had gone to Jagtar Gill’s house in Barrhaven to pay...
View ArticleGill Trial: Mistress stands her ground, denies killing lover's wife
Gurpreet Ronald remained unshaken on Thursday as a lawyer insisted that she acted alone when she allegedly killed her lover’s wife in a jealous rage. The attack came from her lover’s defence lawyer,...
View ArticleGill murder trial: Mistress says she'd do things differently on day in question
Gurpreet Ronald said she hadn’t wanted a divorce but was getting ready for one. She closed the joint bank account, transferred assets, including gold, and talked to a lawyer. Her husband, Jason Ronald,...
View ArticleGill murder trial: Mistress returned to scene of crime as concerned neighbour
Gurpreet Ronald was branded a liar on the stand on Monday, accused of changing her story again and again about what she was doing on the day she allegedly killed her secret lover’s wife in a jealous...
View ArticleCrown to abandon charges against Senator Patrick Brazeau on Wednesday
Two and a half years after Sen. Patrick Brazeau was charged with fraud and breach of trust related to living expenses billed to the Senate, prosecutors have abandoned their case against him, the Ottawa...
View ArticleOttawa terror informant paid $250,000 to testify at hearing that never happened
The RCMP informant who was paid at least $550,000 to befriend and spy on suspected members of an ISIL network in Ottawa was also paid an additional $250,000 in advance to testify at preliminary...
View Article'Total vindication for me and my family': Expense charges dropped against...
The Senate expense scandal fizzled out quietly Wednesday morning as the last two charges — expense fraud and breach of trust against Sen. Patrick Brazeau — were withdrawn by the Crown, who said there...
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