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One of the many signs calling for justice and change at a walk for Roxanne Louie, who was murdered in 2015. Her murderer was recently granted day parole, to the frustration and anger of Louie’s family and the Indigenous communities of the South Okanagan. (Brennan Phillips - Western News)

‘Enough is enough’: Okanagan Indigenous community push back on murderer’s parole

Grace Robotti received day parole seven years into her life sentence

 

<div>Police have charged the estranged husband of a woman from Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula with first-degree murder in a case that stretches back seven years. The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</div>

Estranged spouse charged with murder of Newfoundland woman 7 years after death

Jennifer Hillier-Penney disappeared on Nov. 30, 2016, in St. Anthony, N.L.

 

FILE - Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, left, is driven in a police vehicle from a maximum-security prison to an airport to be extradited to the U.S., on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Court records filed Friday, Oct. 13, indicate Van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, intends to plead guilty in a federal case accusing him of trying to extort money from the missing teen’s mother. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Suspect in Holloway disappearance to appear in federal court for extortion case; plea deal possible

An attorney for the mother of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who disappeared…

 

<div>The jury in a British Columbia Supreme Court murder trial has been told that an expert witness didn’t finish her testimony because she was dead. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</div>

Ali trial in killing of B.C. teen resumes after lengthy break

Jury in B.C. Supreme Court murder trial told witness died before finishing testimony

<div>The jury in a British Columbia Supreme Court murder trial has been told that an expert witness didn’t finish her testimony because she was dead. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</div>
Kelowna Courthouse (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)

Trial underway in case of man found murdered and mutilated in Kelowna

A Kelowna woman was the first to call 911 after finding her husband’s body

Kelowna Courthouse (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)
Kelowna Courthouse (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)

2 murder confessions cannot be used as evidence in Kelowna trial: Justice

A Kelowna woman told police that she was forced to act after being sexually assaulted

Kelowna Courthouse (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)
Josh Kruger, left, then the Communications Director, the Office of Homeless Services at City of Philadelphia, at a tent encampment in Philadelphia, on Jan. 6, 2020. The journalist and advocate who rose from homelessness and addiction to serve as a spokesperson for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable was shot and killed at his home early Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 police said. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Journalist who advocated for homeless, LGBT issues shot and killed at home

Josh Kruger, 39, shot 7 times

Josh Kruger, left, then the Communications Director, the Office of Homeless Services at City of Philadelphia, at a tent encampment in Philadelphia, on Jan. 6, 2020. The journalist and advocate who rose from homelessness and addiction to serve as a spokesperson for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable was shot and killed at his home early Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 police said. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
The Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib is seen in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, September 18, 2023, where temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the parking lot in June. A spokesperson says the temple is investigating how the Washington Post could have reviewed the security camera footage of the B.C. Sikh leader and activist. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. gurdwara reacts after video of Sikh leader’s shooting leaked to media

Unclear how The Washington Post was able to see the video of Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death

The Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib is seen in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, September 18, 2023, where temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the parking lot in June. A spokesperson says the temple is investigating how the Washington Post could have reviewed the security camera footage of the B.C. Sikh leader and activist. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Rick Mihic, a senior investigator at Vancouver City Savings Credit Unit, says a bank account registered to Ibrahim Ali shows transactions in Burnaby on July 18, 2017, the day a 13-year-old was murdered in a B.C. park. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Bank records show accused Ali in same city as victim on day of B.C. murder

A bank account registered to Ibrahim Ali shows transactions in Burnaby, B.C.,…

Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Rick Mihic, a senior investigator at Vancouver City Savings Credit Unit, says a bank account registered to Ibrahim Ali shows transactions in Burnaby on July 18, 2017, the day a 13-year-old was murdered in a B.C. park. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The courthouse in Nanaimo. (News Bulletin file photo)

Accused in 2022 stabbing death on Nanaimo’s waterfront will remain in jail

Mark Jayden Harrison, 20, had a bail detention hearing in B.C. Supreme Court on Sept. 20

The courthouse in Nanaimo. (News Bulletin file photo)
Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. A sexual assault expert is testifying at the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl six years ago.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Ibrahim Ali murder trial testimony: difficulty walking from victim’s injuries

Testimony continues in case of girl found dead in B.C. park

Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. A sexual assault expert is testifying at the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl six years ago.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, after making a statement that Canadian authorities had intelligence that India was responsible for the June fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Trudeau is calling on India to take seriously allegations that the country had a role in the death of a Canadian citizen. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Allies, India heard about Nijjar concerns before Trudeau told public

PM urged India to take allegations seriously, India calls claims ‘absurd and motivated’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, after making a statement that Canadian authorities had intelligence that India was responsible for the June fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Trudeau is calling on India to take seriously allegations that the country had a role in the death of a Canadian citizen. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on June 2, 2015. A sexual assault expert testifying at the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl six years ago says she believes the girl’s vaginal injuries were “highly indicative of blunt force trauma.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Teen victim had blunt-force injuries, court told in Ali B.C. murder trial

Crown says DNA results will prove that Ibrahim Ali sexually assaulted girl in 2017 death

Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on June 2, 2015. A sexual assault expert testifying at the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl six years ago says she believes the girl’s vaginal injuries were “highly indicative of blunt force trauma.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, was shot and killed in his truck in the temple parking lot. File photos: Sikh Community of B.C./Twitter and Tom Zillich

Surrey MP urges calm after intelligence links India to Nijjar murder

‘I know the community will be feeling very angry and frightened right now,’ Sukh Dhaliwal says

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, was shot and killed in his truck in the temple parking lot. File photos: Sikh Community of B.C./Twitter and Tom Zillich
The defence lawyer at the Ibrahim Ali murder trial has put forward the theory that the person who had sex with a murder victim may not be the one who killed the teenager. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Killer, sex partner different, defence suggests in Ali murder trial

Lawyer raises question of whether acts were connected in Ibrahim Ali’s trial in B.C. teen’s 2017 death

The defence lawyer at the Ibrahim Ali murder trial has put forward the theory that the person who had sex with a murder victim may not be the one who killed the teenager. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
An RCMP expert testifying at Ibrahim Ali’s murder trial says she’s never seen a DNA match as close as the one between the suspect and samples found on his alleged victim — except for DNA matches between identical twins. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Ali DNA match in B.C. teen murder exceeded only by identical twins

Ibrahim Ali has pled not guilty in killing of girl whose body was found in a B.C. park 6 years ago

An RCMP expert testifying at Ibrahim Ali’s murder trial says she’s never seen a DNA match as close as the one between the suspect and samples found on his alleged victim — except for DNA matches between identical twins. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
An RCMP expert testifying at the Ibrahim Ali murder trial says the suspect’s genetic profile matched that of an unknown male’s DNA found on swabs of the murder victim. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Accused killer’s DNA matches sample found on dead B.C. teen’s body

Expert testifies at Ibrahim Ali’s murder trial in Burnaby death six years ago

An RCMP expert testifying at the Ibrahim Ali murder trial says the suspect’s genetic profile matched that of an unknown male’s DNA found on swabs of the murder victim. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The mother of a 13-year-old girl killed six years ago told a British Columbia Supreme Court jury she regrets allowing the girl to stay home alone the day she went missing. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Mother of murdered B.C. girl regrets she left her home on day she died

Trial continues in case of body of 13-year-old found in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017

The mother of a 13-year-old girl killed six years ago told a British Columbia Supreme Court jury she regrets allowing the girl to stay home alone the day she went missing. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The Chinese mother of a 13-year-old girl who was found dead in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago has taken the witness stand at the murder trial of her accused killer. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Mother of teenage girl found dead in B.C. tearfully testifies at murder trial

Woman repeatedly wept at the mention of the girl’s name during trial of Ibrahim Ali

The Chinese mother of a 13-year-old girl who was found dead in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago has taken the witness stand at the murder trial of her accused killer. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Slain B.C. teen texted about Harry Potter to brother in China day she died

Brother of teen found dead in B.C. park tells jury they spoke the day of her death

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