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MANDEL: A welcome sliver of hope after 467 days of hell

Relief. Tears. Anger.

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January 16, 2025 Columnists

Protesters calling for the return of hostages held in the Gaza Strip react after a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal was reached on Jan. 15, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

MANDEL: Will anyone be convicted for brazen kidnapping of teen in drug dispute?

He’s the last one standing of five men originally charged with the shocking daylight kidnapping of a 14-year-old boy who’s half-brother had ripped off 90 kilos of cocaine from some very angry drug dealers.

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January 15, 2025 Columnists

On the morning of March 4, 2020, surveillance cameras at 345 Driftwood Ave. captured images of a Jeep Wrangler. Court has heard a Jeep Wrangler was used to abduct a 14-year-old boy after his stepbrother stole 90 kilos of cocaine from drug dealers. (Court exhibit)

MANDEL: 'Incorrigible' speeding menace gets third chance at parole

The local police and his parole officer were against the Ontario man being released

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January 10, 2025 Columnists

Federal parolee charged with girlfriend's murder makes brief court appearance

The federal parolee accused of the shocking murder of his girlfriend visiting his halfway house in Toronto last month made a brief court appearance Friday.

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January 10, 2025 Toronto & GTA

Alisha Brooks was shot and killed in the Jones-Danforth Aves. area on Dec. 8, 2024.

MANDEL: Man blamed brother for parents' murders but judge didn't buy it

A judge has “completely” rejected Alpha Henry’s tall tale that his brother was the real killer who slaughtered their devout parents and then doused their bodies in the bathtub with gasoline.

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January 10, 2025 Toronto & GTA

Alpha Henry has pleaded not guilty to murdering his parents, and has pointed the finger instead at his younger brother.

MANDEL: Teen was abducted over his stepbrother's theft of 90 kilos of cocaine

They sent him a video of his 14-year-old stepbrother lying on the ground with his ankles and wrists bound and the chilling words: “Do you want the fingers or to mom’s house?”

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January 9, 2025 Columnists

MANDEL: Halloween slasher sentenced to 11 years, fatally stabbed victim in heart

One young man is gone forever, while his killer is headed to a federal prison to serve what’s left of an 11-year prison sentence for stabbing him to death outside a frat house in a senseless Halloween slashing spree that injured six others.

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January 7, 2025 Columnists

Jacob Alves fatally stabbed Firdous Nabizada in a frenzy of violence after being kicked out of a party at a U of T frat house in 2019.

MANDEL: It's been a year filled with political crises, wars, rats and Swifties

2024 featured bombshells from Ottawa and Washington, a record-breaking concert series and a Champagne Papi flood

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December 26, 2024 Columnists

MANDEL: On anniversary of Ken Lee swarming, another girl seeks probation

On the grim second anniversary of the deadly swarming of Kenneth Lee, one of the eight girls charged in the shocking crime sat in a downtown youth courtroom as lawyers discussed her future.

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December 19, 2024 Columnists

A lawyer for one of the girls accused in the fatal swarming of Kenneth Lee called on a judge to stay her client's conviction.

MANDEL: Girl in deadly swarming forced to strip naked, court hears

While awaiting trial and held in a secure youth custody centre near London, one of the girls who later pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deadly swarming of Kenneth Lee was forced to strip naked — despite a ministry directive against it.

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December 18, 2024 Columnists