Brontë Mary Rose White Willitts

The offender pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after shooting the victim multiple times in a public alleyway following an altercation.

The Crown sought 13 to 14 years of parole ineligibility, while the defence sought 11 years.

The court weighed the aggravating factors of gun violence in a public place and the devastating impact on the victim's family against mitigating factors including the offender's youth, lack of criminal record, guilty plea, and harsh pre-sentence custody conditions.

The court imposed a life sentence with a 12-year period of parole ineligibility.

The court sentenced Kane Alexander Underhill for aggravated assault after a guilty plea.

The facts involved a violent, unprovoked two-on-one attack on a vulnerable, homeless victim, resulting in severe injuries.

The court considered the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, including Mr. Underhill’s Indigenous background, substance abuse, harsh pre-sentence custody, and prospects for rehabilitation.

The court imposed a seven-year sentence, less pre-sentence custody, and made ancillary orders including a lifetime weapons prohibition and DNA order.

The court sentenced Mwanza Serge Mutombo for aggravated assault after a guilty plea.

The facts involved a vicious, unprovoked attack on a vulnerable, homeless victim, resulting in severe injuries.

The court considered aggravating factors such as Mutombo’s significant criminal record, the use of a weapon, and the vulnerability of the victim, as well as mitigating factors including his guilty plea, disadvantaged background, and harsh pre-sentence custody conditions.

The court reviewed relevant case law and sentencing ranges, ultimately imposing a nine-year sentence, less pretrial custody credit, and making ancillary orders including a lifetime weapons prohibition and DNA order.

The accused was charged with sexual assault, break and enter, and being unlawfully in a dwelling house after breaking into a stranger's apartment and sexually assaulting her.

The accused claimed he was in a dissociative state due to bereavement, lack of sleep, lack of food, and alcohol consumption, leading him to mistakenly believe he was in his childhood home in Casablanca with his fiancée.

The court emphatically rejected the accused's testimony as incredible and implausible.

The court found no air of reality to the mistake of fact defence, noting that self-induced intoxication short of automatism is not a defence to general intent crimes like sexual assault.

The accused was found guilty on all counts.

The offender, a racialized transgender woman, was sentenced after being found guilty of assault with a weapon, three counts of assault with intent to resist arrest against police officers, mischief, and breach of probation.

The court considered her difficult background, prior criminal record including a manslaughter conviction, and community work, but found no remorse.

The court emphasized denunciation and deterrence, particularly for assaults on police officers, and determined that a conditional sentence was inappropriate given the serious nature of the offences and the offender's record.

A total sentence of 12 months and 15 days' incarceration was imposed, followed by two years' probation, a 10-year weapons prohibition, and a DNA order.

The accused, a transgender woman, was charged with assault with a weapon, multiple counts of assault with intent to resist arrest, mischief, and breach of probation following an altercation outside a store and her subsequent arrest.

The accused brought a Charter application alleging excessive use of force by police under sections 7 and 12.

The court reviewed extensive body-worn camera footage and civilian testimony, rejecting the accused's claims of self-defence and police brutality.

The court found the police used reasonable and proportionate force to effect a lawful arrest against an actively resisting individual.

The accused was found guilty on all counts except one count of assaulting a police officer.