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Soldier who killed wife not criminally responsible: doctor
The night Howard Richmond stabbed his wife to death during what he has said was a rape-fantasy tryst, the soldier didn’t realize it was her and was in fact suffering a flashback of horror from his...
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Ottawa drug dealer killed to launch hip hop career, says Crown
Adrian Daou was working as a dishwasher and drug dealer when he hatched a murder plot in the summer of 2010 with the hopes that killer status would launch his dream career as a hip hop star, court...
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Prisoner told Ottawa guard: 'I'd like to confess to a murder'
Innes Road jail guard Bryan Chapman was doing his morning rounds in the segregation unit on Feb. 25, 2013, when Adrian Daou looked out through his window slot in Cell No. 3 and declared that he wanted...
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No evidence killer knew about wife's affair, but 'nobody's that daft', expert...
A forensic psychiatrist who assessed wife killer Howard Richmond testified Friday that, while he didn’t find any evidence that the soldier knew his wife was having an affair, “nobody’s that daft.”...
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'She didn't deserve to die that way. It was horrible', accused killer told...
When Adrian Daou confessed to the 2010 axe-killing of a Vanier prostitute, the 24-year-old aspiring rapper originally told police: “I kept it to myself.” But in a followup interview the next day, Feb....
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Ottawa optometrist banned from Vanier after solicitation acquittal
A prominent Ottawa optometrist who negotiated to pay $50 for sex with an undercover female police officer posing as a prostitute in 2013 has been banned from Vanier for a year and fined $4,000. Bassam...
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Vanier rapper's murder confession doesn't fit crime: defence lawyer
Everything about Adrian Daou’s murder confession is so unreliable that it’s like trying to shove a square peg into a round hole, his defence lawyer told the jury at his first-degree murder trial...
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Ottawa john in teen pimp case gets year in jail for sex assault
Joseph Donnelly, the only john arrested in Ottawa’s notorious teen pimp case, hugged his family goodbye Monday before he was led away in handcuffs to serve a year in jail for raping a 17-year-old girl...
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Jury deliberating fate of Vanier rapper on trial for axe killing
The jury in the Vanier axe-killing trial is deliberating the fate of 24-year-old rapper Adrian Daou, accused of killing Jennifer Stewart for hip-hop fame. It is a circumstantial case anchored in Daou’s...
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Ottawa paintballer made $550,000 to spy on ISIL network
The informant who befriended and spied on suspected members of an ISIL terror network in Ottawa was paid at least $550,000 during the two-year RCMP investigation, the Citizen has learned. The...
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Witness who called police on hammer-attack suspect wanted reward
If it had been any other crime, Craig Osborn said he wouldn’t have called police on Nabil Benhsaien when he recognized him in a newspaper story about a suspect wanted in five broad-daylight hammer...
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Ottawa jury at hammer-attacks trial hears damning DNA evidence
A DNA expert testified Monday that the odds a genetic profile left at a 2011 crime scene belonged to someone other than Nabil Benhsaien were, in a sample lifted from a hammer, one in 10 quadrillion,...
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Ex-realtor Chris Hoare sentenced to 11 years for trying to kill wife with...
Chris Hoare’s elaborate lie finally came to an end on Wednesday with the top-listing real estate agent escorted to prison for trying to beat his wife to death with a baseball bat on the morning of...
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Defence attorney attacks credibility of Ottawa girl in alleged gang sex...
A defence attorney launched an attack on the credibility of a teenaged girl who alleges that she was sexually assaulted by four people at OC Transpo Blair Station in 2013. In an intense...
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Ottawa man killed over a smoke, trial told
Navid Niran died because he wanted a cigarette, the Crown told an Ottawa jury on Tuesday. On Jan. 21, 2012, the 24-year-old father of a newborn son was celebrating a friend’s birthday at a Dalhousie...
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Jury sees chilling video of Market stabbing death
Jurors sat statue-still at the first-degree murder trial of Ahmed Hafizi on Thursday, their eyes fixed on chilling video footage showing the killing of Navid Niran outside a ByWard Market nightclub...
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Accused Ottawa killer was bullied by victim, court told
In the hours before a drunken Navid Niran was knifed to death outside a ByWard Market nightclub on Jan. 22, 2012, he was leading a gang of bullies inside who repeatedly picked on the man on trial for...
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No pancakes for you: Ottawa jail stops hot breakfasts
The food had never been so good at the Old Innes Road jail. For the past three weeks, inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre have been raving about the “strike food” — meals that were...
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Slain Ottawa man was facing sex charges against minor, murder trial told
On the night a drunken and belligerent Navid Niran was knifed to death outside a ByWard Market nightclub, he told a friend he was worried about going to jail for a sexual assault charge involving a...
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Women humiliated, traumatized after sexual voyeur takes secret photos at office
Andrew Acelvari stood quietly as he was sentenced to 30 days at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre for secretly taking cellphone pictures of unsuspecting female co-workers who trusted him as a...
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