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Officer in Abdi arrest once panicked during violent takedown of another...
Const. Daniel Montsion, one of the Ottawa police officers under SIU investigation in the deadly arrest of Abdirahman Abdi, once panicked in a violent takedown of another Somali-Canadian man. This was...
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Mentally ill woman convicted of keeping teen sex slaves gets bail
Caroline Budd, a mentally ill woman convicted of sex crimes and locked up in solitary confinement for the past two weeks, has been released from jail after winning bail on Tuesday. Budd, who has the...
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Larmond twins reveal childhood abuse, discuss jailbird father and finding Islam
In a series of jailhouse interviews with Ottawa’s terror twins, Ashton and Carlos Larmond, the would-be jihadis have detailed their life story — from a bleak childhood scarred by rape, poverty and...
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'I thought I was going to die': Sex worker recalls terror of encounter with...
An Ottawa sex trade worker dabbed at tears on the stand Tuesday as she recounted the horrors of her worst john, a 350-pound career thief named Jacques Rouschop, who she pointed to in the prisoner’s...
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Rape trial hears that alleged victim questioned by police probing death of...
As the rape-and-choking trial of Jacques “Porkchop” Rouschop finished its third day, it became clear that the heart of his defence will be that Ottawa detectives — who were investigating him in the...
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Sex-trade rape trial: 'I could't breathe … I felt hopeless and scared'
The young Vanier sex-trade worker thought she was going to die in the backseat of Jacques Rouschop’s pickup truck. Jacques (Porkchop) Rouschop was a regular client, but this time was different, the...
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Gill 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,...
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Gill 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...
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Crown 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...
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Ottawa 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...
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Gill murder trial: Mistress had no motive to kill, lawyer says
A defining image at the Gill murder trial came when the jury sat statue-still as they watched a young girl recount the day she found her dead mom on the living-room room floor. Jagtar Gill’s throat was...
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Gill murder trial: Judge accused of rolling eyes while accused killer testified
The judge at the sensational murder trial of Barrhaven’s Bhupinderpal Gill and his secret lover Gurpreet Ronald has been accused of rolling her eyes, tilting her head back and folding her arms while...
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Judge in Gill murder trial was asked to recuse herself for alleged bias — she...
Months before Gurpreet Ronald went on trial for the 2014 killing of her secret lover’s wife, her defence lawyer filed a motion asking the judge to recuse herself on grounds of alleged bias after she...
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New details revealed on probe that cleared Ottawa police chief Bordeleau
The civilian watchdog investigation that vindicated Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau this week has revealed that the department has no policy to guide its officers about what they can and can’t do...
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Rape trial expected to hear small-penis defence
Jacques “Porkchop” Rouschop has waited almost three years to defend himself against rape-and-choking charges, and starting Thursday morning, an Ottawa jury will start hearing defence evidence —...
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Small penis, big stomach would have kept accused from committing sex crimes:...
The lawyer defending an alleged choker-rapist told a jury on Thursday that Jacques Rouschop couldn’t physically have committed the vicious sex crimes he’s accused of because his hernia “makes it too...
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Rouschop rape-and-choking trial: Accused says he didn't do it
The rape-and-choking trial of Jacques “Porkchop” Rouschop was again overshadowed on Friday by the unsolved 2013 killing of Vanier sex-trade worker Amy Paul, whose body was found in a farmer’s field on...
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Military police accused of holding woman at gunpoint
The wife of a soldier at CFB Petawawa is suing military police for false arrest, wrongful imprisonment and assault after they busted down her door in the middle of the night and forced her out of bed...
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Ottawa gang banger pleads guilty in deadly 2015 shooting
Khalid Mohammad’s gang life on Ottawa’s streets came to an end Friday afternoon when he stood up in court and apologized for gunning down University of Ottawa student Sharif Said in May 2015 after a...
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Rouschop trial: Jury now deciding fate of the accused
After hearing three weeks of evidence, the jury in the rape-and-choking trial of Jacques “Porkchop” Rouschop is now deliberating the career thief’s fate. Rouschop, 44, mounted a micro-penis defence,...
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