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An imperfect crime: Killer made series of errors in hiding Montrealer’s body
A Gatineau man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death three years ago of 36-year-old Little Burgundy resident Tricia Boisvert and to carrying out an attempt to hide her body that involved one...
View ArticleJudge delays sentence for Canada Revenue Agency auditor
Quebec Court Judge Yves Paradis has delayed his decision on sentencing for a Canada Revenue Agency auditor convicted of soliciting and accepting a bribe from a Plateau Mont-Royal restaurant. Elias...
View ArticleTerror Trial: Jury deciding fate of young couple to be sequestered next week
The jury hearing the trial of a young couple facing terrorism charges at the Montreal courthouse will be sequestered next week. Closing arguments in the lengthy trial came to an end on Friday after...
View ArticleMan who firebombed Jewish school a decade ago back behind bars
A man who firebombed a Jewish school in Outremont more than a decade ago was back behind bars last week on charges alleging he was planning to kill his father and a prostitute. Omar Bulphred, 32, was...
View ArticleDorval man on trial in Mile End bank robbery case acting as own lawyer
A career criminal charged with carrying out the brazen armed robbery of a bank that forced the closure of several streets in Mile End two summers ago will act as his own lawyer throughout his trial....
View ArticleGetaway driver convicted of double murder in N.D.G.
A Nova Scotia resident who acted as the getaway driver in a cold-blooded double murder carried out in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce seven years ago has been found...
View ArticleToopes' killer, jailed for death of man while he drove drunk, sees parole...
A man who is serving time for having killed a passenger in his car while he was driving while impaired in LaSalle recently saw his release from a penitentiary revoked, in part because he reported back...
View ArticleFormer Mount Real CEO Lino Matteo to be released again while he appeals...
Lino Matteo is expected to be a free man once again despite having recently been sentenced to his second prison term in less than 18 months in two different cases where he was convicted of defrauding...
View ArticleTwo men arrested in child porn investigation sentenced to 5-year prison terms
Two men, including the former director general of the city of Lorraine, were sentenced to five-year prison terms at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday in a case where their past sins caught up to...
View ArticleWhat terror trial jury didn't hear: Sister reported, then recanted suspicious...
The most potentially incriminating evidence gathered in Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali’s alleged attempt to travel to Syria to join ISIL was never heard by the jury now deliberating in their...
View ArticleMontreal man seeking revenge pleads guilty to killing wrong person
A young Montrealer pleaded guilty on Thursday to having shot and killed the wrong man while he was seeking revenge for the death of a friend. Jayson Riché-Paquet, 20, appeared before Quebec Superior...
View ArticleQuebec Hells Angel agrees to spend the holidays behind bars
A Hells Angel who was on the lam for eight years until he was arrested in downtown Montreal last month agreed to remain detained over the holidays while he waits for a bail hearing. Marc Bordage, 54,...
View ArticleChild luring: Crown seeks 5-year sentence and long-term offender designation
A South Shore man is facing the possibility of a five-year prison term and might be declared a long-term offender in a case where he admitted to having threatened five teenage girls while trying to...
View ArticleAdele Sorella granted bail while awaiting second murder trial in daughters'...
Adele Sorella will be released on bail while she awaits her second trial on charges she murdered her two young daughters. During a hearing at the Laval courthouse on Friday, Quebec Superior Court...
View ArticleTerror trial: Jury asks question about recipe for pressure-cooker bomb
The jury in the trial of Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali emerged from its deliberation on Monday with a question that was hotly debated outside of their presence just before the panel was...
View ArticleMan charged with Concordia threats back behind bars
Hisham Saadi, the 48-year-old man charged earlier this year with making bomb threats that caused Concordia University to evacuate three of its buildings, has been returned behind bars for allegedly...
View ArticleTerror trial: Djermane not guilty, Jamali convicted on explosives charge
Being curious is not a crime. That is how one of the four lawyers who represented Sabrine Djermane, 21, and El Mahdi Jamali, 20, replied when asked how a jury found their clients not guilty on all of...
View ArticleBenjamin Hudon-Barbeau sentenced for 2013 helicopter escape
Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, the man who staged a spectacular escape from a provincial detention centre using a helicopter four years ago, has been sentenced to an overall 16-year prison term for his...
View ArticleElementary school teacher acquitted of assaulting autistic student
A teacher at a Montreal elementary school was acquitted on Thursday in a case where he was accused of having assaulted a young autistic boy who was acting up during a gym class. Jose Daniel Martinez,...
View ArticleMan who killed wife eligible for parole after 15 years
Harinder Singh Cheema’s sexual advances on a woman just hours after he killed his wife were factored into the sentence he received for murder on Thursday. Superior Court Justice Pierre Labrie called...
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