Three more women file complaints to Ottawa police about accused rapist
Days after insurance salesman Paul Batchelor was acquitted in two rape trials, three more Ottawa women have complained to police about the accused rapist. Read More
View ArticleMeth-impaired driver who killed teen jailed for six years
There are times down at the Ottawa courthouse where, at the end of trial, the life of a victim is overshadowed by the life of a killer. Read More
View ArticleJailed fentanyl dealer launches gofundme to pay for beauty school
Ottawa’s Cortney Rattray-Johnson, serving eight years for selling fentanyl, has launched a gofundme account to finance beauty school once she’s released from prison. Rattray-Johnson, 29, was arrested...
View ArticleCarelton student's killer to appeal conviction, life sentence for 2016...
Abdullah Al-Tutunji, a 20-year-old Carleton University student, escaped the chaos of Iraq only to be knifed to death in a McDonald's parking lot on Dec. 11, 2016 in an unprovoked, racially-motivated...
View ArticleOttawa man on trial for child porn, filming girl at mall
Chris Alan Jones, 42, didn't waste any time on the first break of his trial to head outside the Elgin Street courthouse Monday for some fresh air and a quick smoke. He had cigarettes but no lighter,...
View ArticleCrown appeals rape acquittals of Paul Batchelor
Weeks after Paul Batchelor won stunning acquittals in two rape cases, Ontario Crown attorneys have served the former insurance salesman a notice of appeal, claiming the trial judge made errors that...
View ArticleOttawa killer arrested in Thunder Bay
Matthew Land, who has a lengthy criminal record including a 2000 conviction for manslaughter in Ottawa, is in custody again after a police raid in Thunder Bay. Read More
View ArticleOttawa woman banned from having animals after abusing puppies Rick and Morty
Brittany Prue shook her head in shame on Monday in an Ottawa courtroom as video showed her repeatedly kicking her puppies, Rick and Morty, in the head in the hallway of her Lees Avenue apartment...
View ArticleSexsomnia case: Dad who molested young teen daughter found not criminally...
An Eastern Ontario father who molested his 14-year-old daughter in 2016 has been found not criminally responsible because he was "suffering" from sexsomnia at the time. Read More
View ArticleOttawa man again acquitted on charges he raped wife
An Ottawa man has again been acquitted of raping his wife, this time because she was considered an unreliable witness who had significant motive to fabricate allegations amid a bitter custody battle....
View ArticleBorutski once tried to kill him: Now he's at the centre of a murder-for-hire...
The 'Fat Man' who cheated death in Basil Borutski's 2015 killing rampage now finds himself at the centre of a murder-for-hire plot hatched at the Innes Road jail. Read More
View Article'Twisted damage:' Ex-Ottawa Boy Scout leader jailed six years for child-sex...
It took some of the boys, now grown men, 40 years before they revealed their darkest secrets. The sex-attack victims went on to lead troubled lives, and all held deep feelings of shame, guilt and...
View ArticleChased to death: Ottawa drug dealer guilty after teen plunges 16 storeys
Ottawa crack dealer Liban Gure, 31, used to walk into the Elgin Street courthouse smiling. He wasn’t smiling on Thursday when he was found guilty of manslaughter in the May 15, 2017, death of Ahmed...
View Article'Good kid from a good family' admits showing off loaded handgun at Ottawa...
It's the last thing you'd want to show off at junior high school these days, but an Ottawa schoolboy couldn't help himself after finding it in his parents' basement, stuffed in an old sock and hidden...
View ArticleMichael Swan killer walks free after pleading guilty to lesser charge of...
Michael Swan's grieving family has been spared a fourth murder trial after one of their son's killers pleaded guilty on Tuesday to manslaughter in the 2010 home invasion that left the Barrhaven teen...
View ArticleConvicted rapists walk out of Ottawa court, skip town and prison
Two international students — both convicted in the gang rape of a young Ottawa woman — have skipped town and possibly the country. Read More
View ArticleMother's anger spills out in court as son's killer sentenced
Their feud simmered in jail and ended in broad daylight on a Vanier street corner. Read More
View ArticleOttawa arsonist under investigation in drunk-driving death while on parole
Robert Patrick Gill, the Bank Street arsonist who spread fears of terrorism after setting fires at the offices of a U.S. defence contract agency and the High Commission of Bangladesh in 2008, is now...
View ArticleOttawa arsonist cleared in deadly crash
Robert Patrick Gill, the Bank Street arsonist who caused $7-million in damage in 2008, has been cleared by police in a deadly crash while he was on parole and living at a halfway house in North Bay....
View ArticleOttawa extortionist faces sentencing in online scheme to get young women to...
In an elaborate online extortion scheme designed to get young women to perform sexually-degrading acts live on the internet for his own gratification, Ryan McCann preyed on five young women — one of...
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