'I couldn't take it anymore': Another inmate attempts to kill himself at...
Hours before Theodore Flowers, a thief and drug addict, tried to kill himself at the Ottawa jail last week, he begged for his medication. Flowers, 48, had been cut off from his medication for opioid...
View ArticleOttawa Buddha statue vandalized again days after restoration; vandal caught...
Asoka Weerasinghe fears there’s an anti-Buddhist movement in the city after a statue of Buddha at an Ottawa monastery was vandalized again just days after being restored and unveiled at a ceremony....
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Ottawa man off to jail for not testifying against brother-in-law gangster
Nobody likes testifying in court, let alone as the prosecution’s star witness at your brother-in-law’s murder trial. Ottawa’s Ali Abdul-Hussein, an accessory after-the-fact in a 2006 gangland killing,...
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Accused ringleader in sex-shame attack branded a liar in court
Eunice “Chou Chou” Ilunga would love to have been anywhere else than in the witness box in Courtroom No. 36 under cross-examination by the seasoned James Cavanagh on Friday. And it didn’t take long for...
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'I'm one of the lucky ones,' says Ottawa bus crash survivor with two broken legs
Craig Beaton, 30, clocked out at the print shop on Slater Street around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, hit the TD bank machine, and then the store for a pack of smokes (Viceroy Red Regular), before walking to...
View ArticleCoroner's office investigating hanging death at Ottawa jail
The coroner’s office is investigating another death at the Ottawa jail after an accused bank robber hanged himself just after midnight on Thursday. Jean Veillette, 48, hanged himself in his cell on 2...
View ArticleBarrhaven's traffic chaos: 'It's a battle every day'
Jan Harder drove to her city hall job last week and it took two and a half hours for the full 23-kilometre trek from her Barrhaven home. The Barrhaven councillor is at the point now where some days she...
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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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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...
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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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