Author of the article: Gary Dimmock
Publishing date: May 17, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 5 minute read •
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By all accounts, Jake Garvin didn’t deserve a dog, let alone the puppy he tortured to death in his Ottawa apartment.
It’s not known what day in January that Garvin killed the puppy in the bathroom of his small apartment, but it is clear that his horrified neighbours reported the severe animal abuse to Ottawa police three times in the sad, torturous days before the dog’s untimely death.
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Author of the article: Gary Dimmock
Publishing date: May 16, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 5 minute read •
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By all accounts, Jake Garvin didn’t deserve a dog, let alone the puppy he tortured to death in his Ottawa apartment.
It’s not known what day in January that Garvin killed the puppy in the bathroom of his small apartment, but it is clear that his horrified neighbours reported the severe animal abuse to Ottawa police three times in the sad, torturous days before the dog’s untimely death.
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Milad Aslami, convicted in the 2016 firebombing of his ex-wife’s home, has won a new trial after the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled that the Ottawa trial judge made serious errors and failed to consider all of the evidence, and instead focused on the evidence that supported a guilty verdict.
“(Ontario Court Justice Vincent Clifford) focused on the evidence that supported a finding of guilt and ignored, or at least failed to address, the evidence that raised ‘other reasonable possibilities’ which were inconsistent of guilty, and thus, would have raised a reasonable doubt,” the appeal court ruled in a decision released April 21.
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Aissatou Diallo, the rookie OC Transpo driver on trial for dangerous driving causing death, will not take the stand in her own defence.
The Crown rested its case against Diallo last week without calling a single Ottawa police reconstruction officer or the lead investigator, Alain Boucher, to testify.
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Diallo, a 44-year-old single mom of four, is on trial for three counts of dangerous driving causing death and 35 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. She had only driven Route 269 twice before she slammed a double-decker bus into a steel-framed bus shelter at Westboro Station around 3:50 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2019.