London police officer remains in custody awaiting bail hearing after latest charges
A suspended London police officer charged with harassment and breaching his release conditions for the second time is being held in custody until a bail [more…]
A suspended London police officer charged with harassment and breaching his release conditions for the second time is being held in custody until a bail [more…]
After fleeing their family home, four siblings needed safe places to land and they found them with members of their faith. Read the full story
When one of Jordan Hawke’s human trafficking victims told him she was exhausted from long days of selling sex in hotel rooms across Ontario, he had a firm response. “Money doesn’t sleep and money doesn’t care about your feelings,” he told her. The woman had been seeing between eight and 10 clients a day. One […]
It was a highly unusual courtroom request, and as it turned out, inappropriate.
The photo showed a young woman in a bathing suit basking in the sun on a beach in Greece, her face half-obscured by a large sun hat. The woman testifying at the Superior Court jury trial of her parents accused of violence and sexual abuse, first said she wasn’t sure it was her sister, then […]
A London man who burned down a popular Wortley Village café will be sentenced next month.
Editor’s note: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers Tiny bottles of sparkly nail polish were in the loot bags given out at her fairy princess birthday party. She wasn’t allowed to have any. Her strict religious parents had a lot of rules to follow and there were big consequences if […]
Richard Sillers’ legal fate and the conclusion of the Wortley Pride kerfuffle will wait for another couple of months. Sillers, 38, was found guilty in March of possessing a dangerous weapon – one of the flagpoles he had attached to his pickup truck – and not guilty of causing a disturbance after a to-do in […]
The first moments of Ali Fageer’s sentencing hearing began with an apology – not from the man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but from the judge.
Every time the witness spoke to the police, they said they disclosed a little bit more of what they said happened to them. However, what one of the defence lawyers wanted to know was why the witness at a shocking abuse and sexual assault trial didn’t tell the police and child welfare investigators everything from […]
There was someone to talk to on the back of a Smarties’ box. It was the contact number for the Kids Help Phone, the anonymous help line for youth in distress. The witness at the trial of their parents, a London man and woman aged 57 and 54, said they certainly needed help. They had […]
Editor’s note: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers It was three days before the witness was allowed out of the locked basement. For part of it, they said, they had been tied up with a rope. For all of it, they were naked. The witness explained that their mother was […]