Judge hammers 'law of outlaws' in sentencing men in jailhouse killing
If criminals in a provincial detention centre can exercise enough control over the system to fatally beat a man and hide the crime for hours, society must respond with force, a Superior Court judge...
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More women want their voices heard in Bertrand Charest sex-assault case
A Quebec Superior Court judge is expected to hear a request on Tuesday from four other women who were abused and allegedly abused by former national ski coach Bertrand Charest as they seek to have...
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Woman who was nearly killed in N.D.G. 'disgusted' by attacker's sentence
Smadar Brandes, the woman who was nearly killed when a stranger who was high on drugs stabbed her in the neck, did not mince words after her attacker was sentenced to a prison term that could see him...
View ArticleMontrealer who used Canadian border guard to smuggle cocaine found guilty
A 45-year-old Île Bizard resident who used a Canadian border guard to smuggle large amounts of drugs like crystal meth and cocaine into Canada was found guilty of five charges on Wednesday. Soninder...
View ArticleFour years after conviction, 85-year-old on his way to prison
An octogenarian West Island businessman who was convicted four years ago of having sold millions of contraband cigarettes will have to start serving time in a federal penitentiary following a decision...
View ArticleMan faces two charges in Dorval stabbing
A Dorval resident made a brief appearance before a Quebec Court judge at the Montreal courthouse on Thursday where he was charged with the attempted murder of a 52-year-old man who was stabbed Monday...
View ArticleN.D.G. drunk driver begs for a delay in one-year prison term
Despite being previously told her immaturity likely contributed to how, in 2014, she struck a 13-year-old girl while driving impaired through the streets of LaSalle, a Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident...
View ArticleCrown says man who raped stepdaughter should get 12 years in prison
A Crown prosecutor cited society’s changing attitudes toward sexual abuse when he asked Friday that a man convicted of having sexually assaulted his stepdaughter for years, beginning when she was just...
View ArticleMissing South Shore woman, 78, found near Maine, N.B. borders
Police on the South Shore have called off a search for a 78-year-old Montreal woman who went missing Friday night after she ended up being located in a town 450 kilometres east of the city she was last...
View ArticleMissing 14-year-old girl has been found safe and sound
Océanne Dinardo, the 14-year-old Montrealer who has been missing since Tuesday, has returned home. Montreal police said a little before 7 p.m. the girl was safe and “she came back herself at 6 p.m.”...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal reduces homicide sentences for street gang members
The Quebec Court of Appeal has reduced the sentences of two street gang members who killed an innocent man after ruling the sentencing judge erred by allowing their immigration status to be an...
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Prolific drug smuggler Alain Charron sentenced to 5-year prison term
Notorious organized crime figure Alain Charron has been sentenced to a five-year prison term for his efforts, along with men tied to the West End Gang, to bring three large shipments of hashish into...
View ArticleIf I had known, I would have stopped it, Accurso says of Laval collusion
Antonio Accurso told a jury the presidents of two of his companies flat out denied they were even aware that the city of Laval had a system of collusion for the awarding of infrastructure contracts....
View ArticleMen who killed Raymond Ellis out of prison before sentences were reduced
The two street gang members who saw their sentences for having killed an innocent man reduced by the Quebec Court of Appeal last week actually left federal penitentiaries long before the decision...
View ArticleYouth who killed Darius Brown sentenced to two years of detention
A youth court judge agreed with a defence lawyer’s request to keep his client out of the “university of crime” while he serves a sentence for killing Darius Brown. In doing so, Judge Lucie Godin...
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Six men plead guilty to being part of Montreal drug-trafficking ring
Six men, including two longtime members of gangs affiliated with the Hells Angels, have pleaded guilty to charges filed against them as part of a police investigation into a drug-trafficking network...
View ArticleClosing arguments begin in Antonio Accurso collusion trial
The only thing worse than one unreliable witness in a jury trial is eight unreliable witnesses, Antonio Accurso’s lawyer said on Thursday while making his closing arguments in the construction...
View ArticlePsychopath who tried to kill a cop during robbery denied parole
A convicted killer who tried to kill a police officer while he was making his getaway from a downtown bank robbery seventeen years ago has been denied parole, in part, because he has refused to be...
View ArticleNo charges for police officers involved in Vaudreuil-Dorion shootout
The provincial prosecution bureau will not file charges against police officers involved in the exchange of gunfire outside a Sûreté du Québec detachment in Vaudreuil-Dorion two summers ago that left a...
View ArticleAlleged pedophile ring leader talked of adopting Syrian refugee children
The alleged leaders of a tech-savvy pedophile ring based in Montreal were constantly dreaming up scenarios that would give them access to young children, including the possibility of adopting a Syrian...
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