Latest from Kristy Nease
Former city lawyer who defaced National Holocaust Monument pleads guilty
A former City of Ottawa lawyer has pleaded guilty to mischief after defacing the National Holocaust Monument last month, and is being released on bail ahead of sentencing proceedings at a later date.
'Too many unanswered questions' in William Bryant's killing to make NCR ruling, judge says
An Ottawa judge has taken the rare step of asking counsel to expand on and clarify evidence in the 2023 killing of an Amnesty International worker, and said that without it, she's unable to decide whether the man accused of murder should be found not criminally responsible due to mental disorder.
Debate on forced mental health treatment continues as one woman's costs top $800K
A CBC News analysis found one woman's ongoing journey through the mental health and justice systems has cost more than $800,000 since 2018. In Ontario, two main camps are lobbying for change — each with very different ideas about what to do.
Sentencing in 'extraordinary' revenge porn, sex assault case proceeds as convict absconds from justice
Emotional victim impact statements and sentencing arguments for a Pennsylvania man convicted in Ottawa of sexual assault, criminal harassment and distributing intimate images were heard in court Wednesday as the convicted man absconds justice.
Terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' should get 14 years for 'vile' crimes, Crown argues
Everyone agrees, even the defence. For inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews with terrorist propaganda images and videos he helped make, Patrick Gordon MacDonald is going to prison for a substantial period of time. A judge is now determining just how long that should be.
Sex assault charges withdrawn against Ottawa police superintendent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investigation into his alleged grooming and sexual assault of a female recruit, the criminal charges against him were withdrawn in court Monday at the request of prosecutors.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.