Betsy Powell

2 months ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

In a withering cross-examination, a Crown attorney told the defendant that even if he wasn’t driving his 30-foot speedboat when it crashed on rocks along the Lake Ontario shoreline, killing two, he was still criminally negligent for handing the wheel over to someone who had been drinking — a man Filip Grkovski said he’d already told to slow down because he was going too fast.

2 months ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

Two women aboard a powerboat that crashed in Lake Ontario almost three years ago described in court Wednesday how, after hours of partying in a multi-vessel “tie up,” their boat headed back to shore and accelerated “really, really fast” before flipping over near a rock wall in front of Tommy Thompson Park. The women were testifying at the trial of Filip Grkovski, 41, alleged to be the driver of the boat on May 31, 2022.

2 months ago | hamiltonnews.com | Betsy Powell

At 12, she was bursting with talent and creativity, winning cooking and dance contests and filling journals as an aspiring writer. She also planned to launch a baby-sitting business with her cousin, also 12. Her family had welcomed the boy into their Scarborough apartment after his father died overseas. The eldest of four, the girl called him her “brother” — which is why what happened on Sept. 5, 2023, is so shocking and inexplicable.

2 months ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

At 12, she was bursting with talent and creativity, winning cooking and dance contests and filling journals as an aspiring writer. She also planned to launch a baby-sitting business with her cousin, also 12. Her family had welcomed the boy into their Scarborough apartment after his father died overseas. The eldest of four, the girl called him her “brother” — which is why what happened on Sept. 5, 2023, is so shocking and inexplicable.

2 months ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

A remorseless killer who committed the “grotesque” crime of fatally stabbing his ex-wife and daughter on a busy North York street has been sentenced to life in prison. Godfrey Sig-Od’s “savage attack” on two defenceless family members was committed in full public view on the afternoon of Aug. 26, 2022, Superior Court Justice Alfred O’Marra said Thursday, reading his sentencing reasons.