Cancrime has obtained exclusive photos (after the jump) of the 19-year-old Barrie, Ontario man who was killed during an apparent bar fight last week in the Dominican Republic. Jordan Morrison(inset) died Friday after a brawl in a nightclub near Punta Cana. Five men, four Canadians and an Algerian who lives in Canada, were arrested and are being investigated by Dominican authorities.
A killer who served 10 years in prison for gunning down a man in broad daylight on a street in Kingston, Ontario, is one of two people charged in a savage home-invasion murder. Kingston Police announced today that they charged ex-convict Phillip Melville Moore, 32, and Charles Nathan Thomas, 29, with murder. Moore was freed from prison not long before the killing. On October 25, 2010, masked intruders burst into the north-end Kingston apartment of James Clifford Richards, 32. Witnesses told me at the time that they believed Richards was stabbed and his throat was slashed. The witnesses said they believed there were three attackers.
Now we know why Richard Charles Joyce (inset), a 44-year-old imprisoned killer, cowered behind his coat collar last Friday as he was led from a prison escort van into a courthouse in Kingston, Ontario. Joyce, who is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, is no longer a standup guy, no longer just a lifer in the prison subculture. Now, he’s the lowest of the low in the pecking order, a reviled child molester.
Killer Richard Joyce tried to hide his face from my camera and he refused to answer any questions as he shuffled into a Kingston, Ontario, courtroom today to make the surprise decision to abandon his faint hope application. As revealed in this previous post, Joyce now faces new charges related to the abduction and sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl 21 years ago, the year before he killed a Kingston woman during a gas bar robbery.
Science caught up to Richard Joyce, just as the imprisoned killer was about to go before a jury and plead for earlier freedom. Joyce, who is serving a life sentence for the 1991 murder of a gas bar operator in Kingston, Ontario, is expected to appear in a courtroom Friday morning to formally abandon his faint hope hearing that was scheduled to begin in two weeks, Cancrime has learned. In the afternoon, Kingston Police are expected to announce that they have charged Joyce in a 21-year-old unsolved sexual assault case involving a nine-year-old girl. The child was assaulted the year before Joyce and accomplice Terry Kennedy tortured and murdered Yvonne Rouleau, a 34-year-old mother of three.
A stoic and private man who has grieved for his murdered wife for two decades wiped away tears when a jury announced that the killer did not deserve an earlier chance at parole. The 12-person panel also ruled Tuesday that imprisoned killer Terry Kennedy (inset) cannot apply for another faint hope hearing. He will have to wait to seek full parole in May 2016, after he has served 25 years of his life sentence.
Lawyers will make closing statements Monday at the faint hope hearing of imprisoned killer Terry Kennedy (inset). The 41-year-old Kingston, Ontario man, who was convicted in 1992 of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, is pleading for a shot at earlier parole under the rarely used section of the Criminal Code. He has to convince a 12-person jury that he deserves it. Kennedy testified this week during the faint hope hearing being held in Kingston, breaking a 20-year public silence about the savage murder.
An imprisoned killer who slashed a woman’s throat during a robbery and left her to bleed to death refused to admit his guilt for the first 13 years he was behind bars, a jury heard Monday in a courtroom in Kingston, Ontario. Terry Kennedy would not confess because he hoped an appeal would succeed (it did not) and he was afraid that his family would abandon him if they knew the truth. Kennedy also confessed to a prison psychologist that he brought the “scariest” knife he had in his kitchen to the robbery, the hearing heard. The weapon was used to torture and kill Yvonne Rouleau, a 34-year-old mother of three who operated a gas station in downtown Kingston. These revelations, unknown even to the police officer who investigated the crime 20 years ago, came during a rare faint hope hearing.
This will be a painful week for Paul Rouleau (inset). For the first time in two decades, the Kingston man will have to stare down the two men who slashed his wife’s throat and left her to bleed to death on the floor of the gar bar she operated. In a Kingston courtroom Monday, Rouleau confronts Terry Kennedy and four weeks later, he faces Richard Joyce. The killers, who stole a few thousand dollars from the gas bar, were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years for murdering Yvonne Rouleau in 1991. They applied for and won the right to faint hope hearings at which they can argue they should be entitled to earlier parole eligibility.
Axe murderer Francis Clancy threw “temper tantrums” and was resistant to a drug treatment program in the community, but the National Parole Board has decided to extend his parole (doc after the jump) anyway. He’s now living at a halfway house on Victoria Island, in British Columbia, far from Ottawa, Ontario, where he savagely murdered 29-year-old Iain Irvine in 1983. The board says Clancy is “highly motivated” to succeed on release, although when he’s been confronted about the murder that put him in prison for life, he can’t really explain why he did it.
Video of the Shafia family, who have since been convicted of murdering four family members, as they arrived in court in October 2010, when their case was at the pre-trial motion stage. (click image above to play video)
Managers at medium-security Joyceville penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario, bowed to a long list of inmate demands, including giving back control of spaces in the volatile prison where a race riot last year left one inmate near death (click image above to read the internal memo obtained by Cancrime). Management aceded to the demands of the inmates after they staged a one-week strike in which convicts refused to report to their prison jobs.
»Click here to read full post about last year's riot at Joyceville
»Click here to read about Josh Erdodi, the inmate who was savagely beaten during the riot
