Paul Cherry
Crime Reporter at Montreal Gazette
Crime reporter with The Gazette (Montreal). Author of The Biker Trials (ECW) et Les Proces des Motards. Thank you to Delf Berg for the courtroom sketch of moi.
Articles
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16 hours ago |
montrealgazette.com | Paul Cherry
François Pelletier, the man on trial for the murder of 24-year-old Romane Bonnier, ran out of time Friday before he could tell the jury hearing his case about the day of the brutal slaying in the McGill Ghetto more than three years ago. Friday was Pelletier’s third day on the witness stand in a first-degree murder trial at the Montreal courthouse, where the 39-year-old is acting as his own lawyer.
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23 hours ago |
montrealgazette.com | Paul Cherry
A Montrealer who once told the FBI he considered Osama Bin Laden to be “inspirational,” and who was arrested this week for allegedly making a threat to kill many people in Montreal, has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, made his second appearance before a judge at the Montreal courthouse on Friday, where he is charged with uttering threats.
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2 days ago |
montrealgazette.com | Paul Cherry
François Pelletier continued his very confusing testimony Thursday in the trial where he is accused of stabbing Romane Bonnier to death in the McGill Ghetto in front of several stunned witnesses more than three years ago. Pelletier, 39, is acting as his own lawyer in the case at the Montreal courthouse, where he is charged with first-degree murder. On Wednesday, he made an opening statement to the jury during which he bluntly admitted he killed the 24-year-old woman by stabbing her 26 times.
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2 days ago |
montrealgazette.com | Paul Cherry
The man on trial for the murder of Romane Bonnier, a woman who was stabbed 26 times in front of several witnesses in the McGill Ghetto, began his defence Wednesday afternoon by bluntly stating that he killed her. “I killed Romane. I stabbed her 26 times,” François Pelletier, 39, told a jury at the Montreal courthouse. He said his testimony was part of a story called “the moth and the flame.” Pelletier made the rambling introduction before he was sworn in.
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3 days ago |
montrealgazette.com | Paul Cherry
Former Quebec premier Pierre-Marc Johnson told a court Wednesday that he thought his friend, Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon, would be “an ideal target” for the #metoo movement before allegations of sexual abuse against Rozon surfaced in 2017. Johnson, who was premier for two months in 1985, was testifying at the civil trial where nine women are suing Rozon for $14 million. Some of the women allege that Rozon sexually assaulted them.
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