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Admitted Ottawa killer may have understood right from wrong, trial told
Mark Haslett may have known right from wrong before and after he killed his roommate, his jury trial heard on Tuesday. In cross-examination of a forensic psychiatrist who interviewed Haslett, 27,...
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Manslaughter for man in stabbing death of roommate
Mark Haslett has had more than his fair share of hardship. At 10, he was the boy in Blackburn Hamlet who had the awful duty of calling 911 when his dad died at home from a stroke. Ten years later, his...
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Body-modification artist unable to work after attack, court hears
Ottawa’s Calvin Nicol, a body-modification artist who has black-tattooed eyeballs and silicone horns, faced his accused attackers in court on Monday, testifying that he was jumped and severely beaten...
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Ottawa body-mod artist not on tape on night of beating
It would have been hard to miss the sight of Calvin Nicol, covered in blood and running for his life through McDonald’s on Rideau Street. The body-modification artist who says he was severely beaten...
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Ottawa terror suspect Suliman Mohamed denied bail
Ottawa’s Suliman Mohamed, arrested in an RCMP terrorism probe in January, has been denied bail after an eight-day hearing. “We’re profoundly disappointed with her worship’s decision and right now we’re...
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Ottawa daycare provider jailed for sex crimes
The Ottawa daycare owner who preyed on two young girls in his care is going to prison. Jeffrey Wills, 41, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison and will be banned from any public place...
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Ottawa sex slave trial: 'I kept begging them to stop': teen girl
In a horrifying account of being hog-tied and gagged, then repeatedly raped in a Nepean basement by a young couple, a teen girl told police in 2014 that she was screaming in pain and begging them to...
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'He was just bones, you could see every rib': Child abuse trial of Mountie, wife
The father of an 11-year-old boy reported missing on the night of Feb. 12, 2013 portrayed his son as “out of control” and warned a responding police constable that she might find bruises on his body...
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Video: Inside the jailhouse beating of Carlos Larmond
A jailhouse video capturing the vicious beating of accused terrorist Carlos Larmond can now be seen after a judge released it to the press on Thursday. Terrence Wilson and another prisoner unleashed...
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Stepmother felt guilty for not trying to keep boy safe, trial told
Hours after her husband had been arrested for allegedly torturing his 11-year-old son in the basement, the boy’s stepmother told authorities that she felt guilty for not protecting him. “I’m not saying...
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'I hate myself for it,' father of shackled, starving boy told police
A former Mountie confessed to police that he had kept his 11-year-old son shackled in the basement and rationed his food, giving him just two peanut-butter pitas a day. On the day he escaped — Feb. 12,...
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Boy tried to escape for a month, says stepmom sometimes tried to stop dad
A day after he escaped his Kanata basement, an 11-year-old boy recounted horrific abuse — including starvation and torture — in a police interview he gave from his hospital bed at Children’s Hospital...
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'I was drowning and he'd say 'I hate you',' boy recounts in child abuse trial
It was a Florida vacation nowhere near ordinary, with their 11-year-old son tied up and left hungry in a room while his Ottawa parents hit the beach. “(My father) wouldn’t untie me to go to the...
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'I forgive him,' Kanata boy tells father's child-abuse trial
An 11-year-old boy who almost starved to death in 2013 has forgiven his father, now on trial for torturing the boy in the basement of their Kanata home. “I miss the good times, not the evil times. I...
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Ottawa teen jailed 7 years for kidnapping, torture of autistic grocery clerk
A 19-year-old Ottawa man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in the 2014 kidnapping and torture of an autistic grocery clerk who was held in a dog cage for 2½ days. Traveonne...
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Ottawa valedictorian, cheerleader-turned teen pimp arrested in crack bust
One of Ottawa’s notorious teen pimps jailed last year for her role in a ring that beat, drugged and forced girls as young as 13 into prostitution is in trouble with the law again. The girl, described...
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Melissa Richmond was torn about ending marriage days before husband killed her
In the days before her husband stabbed her to death on July 25, 2013, Melissa Richmond was worn down and torn about ending her troubled marriage, but in the end she decided it was the best, most honest...
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Husband offers wife trip around world, then kills her: Richmond trial
Melissa Richmond had always dreamed of travelling the world but figured it was out of her financial reach. So in July 2013 when her husband said he had figured out a way for a two-year,...
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Ottawa police refused to let mom see her critically injured son in hospital
The mother of a critically injured teen had to hire lawyers to force Ottawa police officers to allow her to visit her own son in the hospital. On Monday afternoon, Pierce James, just 18, accidentally...
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RCMP seized Book of Jihad in terror raid at Vanier home
When the RCMP arrested Ottawa twin brothers Ashton and Carlos Larmond in January on charges of terrorism, investigators searched Ashton’s home and seized a handwritten journal titled the Book of Jihad,...
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