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Escort who spent time with accused murderer on night of killing testifies at his trial
A part-time sex worker who spent a short time with Nikolas Ibey in his room the same night he allegedly murdered his new housemate testified at his trial Friday that he was doing drugs and couldn't have sex, and that she never saw or heard anyone else in the house.
Racist, hate-fuelled videos promoting violence played for alleged terror propagandist's trial
In an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday, federal Crown prosecutors played three videos downloaded from social media by RCMP in 2020 — videos the Crown contends were created in part by Patrick Gordon Macdonald, an alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist who lives in the capital with his parents.
Trial of alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' begins in Ottawa
Using the online alias "Dark Foreigner," an Ottawa man made hate propaganda videos and images for an international neo-Nazi organization to promote hatred against Jews and others, federal Crown prosecutors alleged at the beginning of Patrick Gordon Macdonald's trial on Monday.
For brutal domestic slaying, a powerful nighttime guilty verdict of 1st-degree murder
Late Friday night, in a darkened Ottawa courthouse, a jury found Jean-Bruno Fenelon guilty of first-degree murder for killing Marie Gabriel in a jealous rage as she was trying to kick him out of her house in March 2022.
Crown opens case against Ottawa man accused of killing Inuk woman
The man on trial for first-degree murder in the death of an Inuk woman who had just moved to Ottawa from Nunavut to attend college in 2022 was drinking, taking drugs, and had been trying to find an escort for "eight hours straight" before the killing, the Crown alleged in its opening remarks.
Eastway Tank wins bid to argue Charter rights were violated in fatal explosion criminal probe
A judge has ruled that Eastway Tank, Pump and Meter can go ahead with its plan to argue that search warrants and seizures related to an explosion that killed six of its employees should be quashed over alleged Charter violations.
5 Westboro bus crash lawsuits against city can proceed after class action refused
A proposed class action lawsuit against the City of Ottawa that failed to get certification after years of appeals can now be amended and proceed as an individual case, along with four new claims related to a fatal bus crash in 2019, a Superior Court judge has ruled.
In Depth
Inside the domestic violence case that collapsed, years before victim's husband murdered her
In October of 2013, an Ottawa police intimate partner violence detective told Hanadi Mohammed she was going to charge her abuser, find people to help her and call back the next day. None of it happened, and Mohammed wound up back with her husband days later. He murdered her and tried to murder their daughter in 2021.
Suspended lawyer must pay $235K for 'staggering' breach of trust in sex-for-services proposal
Suspended Ottawa lawyer James Bowie has been ordered to pay a former client — and plaintiff in a civil case against him — $235,000 after proposing she pay for his legal services with oral sex and disclosing personal details about her online after her allegations garnered media coverage.
Powerful last message from murder victim to her abusive ex read in court after his guilty verdicts
It was haunting, at the end of the trial that found her murderer Hamid Ayoub guilty, to hear a message Hanadi Mohammed wrote to her tormentor of many years — the abusive husband she had finally left — nine months before he stabbed her dozens of times, taking her life.