Latest from Kristy Nease
Sex assault charges withdrawn against Ottawa police superintendent
Three years after an Ottawa police superintendent was suspended amid an investigation into his alleged grooming and sexual assault of a female recruit, the criminal charges against him were withdrawn in court Monday at the request of prosecutors.
'Control, violence and cruelty': Sisters killed mother to end decades-long abuse, defence argues
Faced with an increasingly abusive mother after decades of her "control, violence and cruelty," two sisters killed her out of fear for their safety and aren't guilty of murder, one of their defence lawyers told the jury as he opened his case Friday.
'Many years. Many beatings': Sisters confess to killing mother in videos played at trial
In separate, remarkably candid interviews with homicide investigators just hours after their mother was found dead, two sisters confessed to attacking her as she slept and killing her because they were "so angry" following years of emotional and physical abuse.
Sisters angry at their mother attacked her as she slept, murder trial hears
Two sisters accused of first-degree murder in the 2022 killing of their 88-year-old mother were angry at how they said she treated them, struck and strangled her as she slept, then called 911 and told the dispatcher and police that they had killed her, their trial heard Tuesday.
Murderer Adam Picard's conviction upheld by Ontario's highest court
After a hearing last fall, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has upheld a jury's guilty verdict against Adam Picard for the first-degree murder of Fouad Nayel in June 2012. It's the latest salvo in a case that was taken all the way to the Supreme Court, and which could return there if Picard appeals this ruling.
No system to track, train lying police, lawyer says after another scathing decision
A man found in a parking lot with drugs and a highly dangerous prohibited handgun and over-capacity magazine has walked free because two Ottawa police officers breached his Charter rights and lied in court about it. His defence lawyer says a system should be created to let officers know when it happens.
Emotional statements follow Alain Bellefeuille's guilty verdict for murder of police
It took the jury a little more than a day to reach their verdict in the trial of Alain Bellefeuille — guilty as charged for the first-degree murder of Sgt. Eric Mueller and the attempted murder of two other officers who were entering Bellefeuille's home in the early morning hours of May 11, 2023.
'I curse u for all eternity': What the jury never heard at Alain Bellefeuille's trial
Of everything the jury doesn't know about in the case against Alain Bellefeuille as they begin deliberations — and, as with all jury trials, that's more than the general public might think — perhaps the most significant is a violent note found in Bellefeuille's van.
Crown attacks Bellefeuille's credibility on his 3rd day of testimony
The Crown leaned in Tuesday to attack the credibility of Alain Bellefeuille, who's accused of murdering an Ontario Provincial Police officer and attempting to murder two others during a wellness check two years ago.
Accused denies turning rifle into a 'war machine' before firing at OPP officers
Alain Bellefeuille spent his second day on the stand in his own defence denying prosecution accusations that he hadn't fallen asleep at all the night he shot at three police officers, killing one of them, and that he'd turned his rifle into a "war machine" by loading it with an illegal magazine, among other enhancements.