9 h. ago ‘I’m so grateful I got to be your mom’: Toronto woman who suffocated her 2 sons sentenced to life

Court heard the 27-year-old Toronto woman was left a paraplegic as a result of a failed suicide attempt on the night she murdered her sons.

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5 d. ago Sentencing hearing held for young woman who murdered Toronto rapper

The family of rapper Jai Parker-Ford read out their victim impact statements during a sentencing hearing for Brianna Warner, who was found guilty last month.

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5 d. ago ‘Big Ash’ gets life sentence for killing of drug dealer Grant Norton

Grant Norton was beaten, battered, hog-tied, and stabbed. Then he was stuffed into a plastic barrel and ditched along the Thames River

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7 d. ago Woman sentenced to life, no parole for 25 years in drug dealer’s killing

Superior Court Justice Martha Cook said Grant Norton, 59, was “robbed, savagely beaten, and stabbed”.

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1 week ago Mushroom murderer appeals convictions, claims ‘miscarriage of justice’

Erin Patterson was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four and killing three of her estranged husband’s relatives.

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2 w. ago Man pleads guilty to manslaughter in killing of London drug dealer

Wesley Peters was supposed to go on trial for first-degree murder in January.

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2 w. ago Manitoba teen sentenced to life in prison for beating deaths of three in 2022

A Manitoba Court of King's Bench justice sentenced the now 18-year-old male to life in prison with no chance of parole for seven years. 

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3 w. ago Alberta woman sentenced in impaired driving crash that killed Canadian Forces veteran

A 31-year-old woman from the Mini Thni First Nation, west of Calgary, has been sentenced in connection with a motorcycle that killed a Canadian Forces veteran in August 2022.

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3 w. ago Adam Drake gets life in prison, no chance of parole for 17 years in Pat Stay murder

A Nova Scotia judge has set parole eligibility at 17 years for Adam Drake, who was found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of rapper Pat Stay.

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3 w. ago French prosecutor demands maximum sentence for schoolgirl’s murder

Paris (AFP) — A French prosecutor Friday urged the maximum sentence for an Algerian woman accused of raping, torturing and murdering a schoolgirl in Paris in 2022. Dahbia Benkired is standing trial for killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in the French capital 2022, in a case that horrified the country and sparked anti-immigration fervour because the […]

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3 w. ago Weapons, violence, drugs: Life at the West Hotel, where crime group was dismantled by VPD

"That block has been infiltrated by drug dealers and those carrying out gang-related crime," West Hotel owner Chris Wall says

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3 w. ago Judge calls random killing of Calgary man outside his condo unit "shocking, appalling, terrifying"

Corey Carl Miklic received an automatic life sentence without parole for a minimum 13 years for the stabbing death of Brett Davidson

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3 w. ago Japanese man jailed after rare public accusation of sexual assault

Toyama (Japan) (AFP) — A Japanese court handed down an eight-year jail sentence Tuesday to the father of a woman who publicly accused him of rape, a rare case in the country where many victims stay anonymous. Koji Daimon was convicted of raping his daughter Riho Fukuyama in 2016, when she was in high school. […]

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