Jane Sims

London

Reporter at The London Free Press in London, Ontario, Canada, covering courts, crime and justice issues. Columnist during the pandemic.

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Articles

Accused's violent poem entered as evidence at drug dealer murder trial

1 week ago | lfpress.com | Jane Sims

Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October 2023 while she was behind bars became evidence at her first-degree murder trial in the death of high-level drug dealer Grant Norton. “Now that I’m nearly 40 years old, I’m in jail for life, my future foretold,” she wrote. “For killing a rapist, I’m so (expletive) (expletive). The Devil I was forced to kiss.
Accused in drug dealer's death tells police 'I want to die'

1 week ago | lfpress.com | Jane Sims

• • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentWhile slumped in a wheelchair, her long hair covering her face and wrapped in two blankets, Ashley Bourget got to listen to what others in her circle were saying about her involvement in the death of drug dealer Grant Norton.
Accused in drug dealer's death told police she deserved 'Purple Heart'

1 week ago | lfpress.com | Jane Sims

Advertisement oopSkip to ContentAdvertisement 1 • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentAshley Bourget told the police officer she should have been given “a Purple Heart” instead of a first-degree murder charge. “I shouldn’t go to jail for murder. I should get a Purple Heart instead,” she said through loud sobs during her police interview on June 16, 2021, referring to the U.S. military honour.
Blaze in vacant warehouse deemed suspicious by police

1 week ago | lfpress.com | Jane Sims

Advertisement 1 • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentA massive vacant warehouse fire in St. Thomas that sent black smoke billowing across the city is now under police investigation. “The fire has been deemed suspicious and is currently under investigation by our criminal investigation bureau,” St. Thomas police spokesperson Samanatha Wakefield said on Tuesday morning. The fire at the former Weatherhead Co. of Canada Ltd.
Blaze in vacant warehouse deemed suspicious by police

1 week ago | stthomastimesjournal.com | Jane Sims

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentA massive vacant warehouse fire in St. Thomas that sent black smoke billowing across the city is now under police investigation. Advertisement 2Article contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.
Accused told police she didn't kill drug dealer, points finger at three men

1 week ago | lfpress.com | Jane Sims

Advertisement oopSkip to ContentAdvertisement 1 • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentAshley Bourget said she’d had enough. “I’m done with this because I told you now what happened 100 times and I’m fed up so I’m going to go. If you need me you know where I live,” she said as she stood up to leave the London police interview room. “Now I look like a rat and I’m probably going to die for this.
'Coercive, manipulative' human trafficker handed 15½ year sentence

1 week ago | thesudburystar.com | Jane Sims

Jordan Hawke trafficked victims in Sudbury and across OntarioJordan HawkeArticle contentJordan Hawke’s large-scale human trafficking scheme called out for a large-scale sentence to send a message “in the loudest possible way.”Advertisement 2This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article contentArticle contentRecommended VideosWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.
'Coercive, manipulative' human trafficker handed 15½ year sentence

1 week ago | lfpress.com | Jane Sims

“The quantum of harm he occasions to numerous victims is incalculable. The victims’ lives have been forever changed, the harm done to them has been profound.” Hawke pleaded guilty to 10 charges involving seven women he controlled and exploited by sex trafficking them in cities across Ontario including London, Windsor, Mississauga, Sudbury, Orillia, Burlington, Brantford, Woodstock, Waterloo and Guelph.
Killer apologizes to family for fatally stabbing London man: 'Forever sorry'

1 week ago | thesudburystar.com | Jane Sims

Antony Centeno-So apologized at his sentencing hearing to the family of Devon Cherrey-Rooke for fatally stabbing him in 2022Author of the article: Jane Sims Published Apr 10, 2025 • Last updated 7 hours ago • 2 minute readAntony Centeno-So (London police photo)Article contentThe morning Antony Centeno-So stabbed a friend to death is, he said, “a blur.”Advertisement 2This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Witness denies implicating accused to save longtime friend

1 week ago | lfpress.com | Jane Sims

The witness insisted he wasn’t putting in the save for a friend. “No,” he repeatedly told Ashley Bourget’s Superior Court murder trial on Friday, he wasn’t trying to deflect blame for Grant Norton’s death off his longtime friend and onto a woman he said he barely knew. The witness has given first-person testimony through police statements to being in Bourget’s apartment when he said he saw Norton on the couch with a pillowcase over his face and two people tying him up.