Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.

Parents face first-degree murder charges in Brampton boy’s death
Published On Thu, 17 May 2012

Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.
The Canadian Press

A couple accused in the death of a 10-year-old boy are now facing upgraded charges of first-degree murder.

Police say the boy’s father Garfield Boothe and stepmother Nichelle Boothe-Rowe appeared in a Brampton court Thursday for the start of their preliminary hearing.

Both were formally charged with the upgraded counts.

Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.

Garfield Boothe was originally charged with failing to provide the necessities of life but that charge was later upgraded to second-degree murder.

Nichelle Boothe-Rowe was previously facing a manslaughter charge.

Mountie claims mental illness when wife was shot
By Tony Blais, QMI Agency

RCMP Const. Tirth Sehmbi in undated frame grab from Youtube.

EDMONTON – A former RCMP officer accused of shooting his wife to death at their Edmonton home is seeking to be found not guilty as a result of being mentally ill at the time.

Tirth Sehmbi, 39, is charged with second-degree murder in the July 10, 2010, slaying of Rajpinder Kaur Sehmbi.

In Court of Queen’s Bench Friday, defence lawyer Mike Danyluik said an agreed statement of facts would be submitted in the case on Sept. 17 and the matter would then proceed to a contested hearing to decide whether or not Sehmbi should be found not priminally responsible.

In earlier court proceedings, Sehmbi could be seen visibly shaking as he sat handcuffed and shackled.

RCMP Const. Tirth Sehmbi in undated frame grab from Youtube.

Sehmbi has been held in custody at Alberta Hospital and there have been previous court orders for psychiatric assessments to determine whether he was a potential candidate for a not criminally responsible finding.

The 30-year-old victim was found dead in the southeast Edmonton home the couple shared with their two young sons. The boys were not home at the time of the death. 

As the one-year anniversary of Londoner Patricia Pacheco-Hernandez's death approaches, her sister in Colombia says the Canadian government won't allow her to visit her sister's grave and children here.

Visa woes frustrate slain woman’s kin
By DALE CARRUTHERS, The London Free Press

Last Updated: May 10, 2012 6:46pm

Patricia Pacheco-Hernandez

As the one-year anniversary of Londoner Patricia Pacheco-Hernandez’s death approaches, her sister in Colombia says the Canadian government won’t allow her to visit her sister’s grave and children here.

Piedad Pacheco-Hernandez says won’t have closure until she visits her sister’s grave in London, but she can’t get the travel documents needed to come to Canada.

Patricia Pacheco-Hernandez, 41, was found dead in the basement of her south London home May 18, 2011.

Her husband, Daniel Jimenez-Acosta, 44, is charged with second-degree murder. He appeared in court this week for a preliminary hearing.

Aset Magomadova, pictured leaving the Calgary Courts Centre in June 2010, will not have to stand trial until early 2013. (CBC)

Retrial of mother accused of killing daughter delayed
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Aset Magomadova, pictured leaving the Calgary Courts Centre in June 2010, will not have to stand trial until early 2013. (CBC)

The retrial of a Calgary mother accused of strangling her teenage daughter will be delayed for at least seven months for health reasons.

Aset Magomadova initially faced a murder charge in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, Aminat, in 2007. During the trial, she testified that she acted in self-defence when her daughter came at her with a knife.

She was convicted of manslaughter and got a suspended sentence, but last year, the Alberta Court of Appeal ordered a new trial on the charge of second-degree murder.

Anna Karissa Grandine and Philip Grandine. Courtesy of Facebook.

The cause of Anna Karissa Grandine’s death was drowning, police say. (Humphrey Funeral Home)

Pastor faces murder charge in pregnant wife’s death
05/02/2012 | CityNews.ca staff

Anna Karissa Grandine and Philip Grandine. Courtesy of Facebook.

A Toronto pastor has been charged with first-degree murder in the drowning death of his pregnant wife last fall.

Philip Grandine, 25, was arrested and charged on Tuesday, and was scheduled to appear in a Toronto courtroom the same day.

On Oct. 17, 2011, police were called to 12 Marsh Rd. in the city’s east end where they found Anna Karissa Grandine in medical distress. She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead. The cause of death was drowning, police said in a release.

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The victim was a casualty underwriter at Berkley Canada in downtown Toronto and was active in several Baptist churches, most recently at Ennerdale Road Baptist Church where her husband had served as pastor, the notice said.

In 2006, Ved Parkash Dhingra, pictured with his daughter, Lina, killed his estranged wife Kamlesh Kumari Dhingra and was tried for second-degree murder. He was found not criminally responsible in 2008 on account of mental disorder.

Insane man who killed wife entitled to her insurance benefits
Published On Tue, 24 Apr 2012

In 2006, Ved Parkash Dhingra, pictured with his daughter, Lina, killed his estranged wife Kamlesh Kumari Dhingra and was tried for second-degree murder. He was found not criminally responsible in 2008 on account of mental disorder.
TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO
Betsy Powell
Courts Bureau

A Toronto-area man found to be not criminally responsible when he killed his wife is entitled to collect her life insurance benefits, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled.

After a history of hospitalization and suicide attempts,Ved Dhingra killed Kamlesh Dhingra, 56, in her Richmond Hill home on June 15, 2006.

Related: Man who killed wife can’t cash her $50,000 life insurance

Two years later, Ved Dhingra, then 66, was found not criminally responsible for second-degree murder because he suffered from a schizoaffective disorder.

His son Paul Dhingra, administrator of his mother’s estate, challenged an insurance company’s decision to pay his father a death benefit of $51,000 and asked that it go to the estate instead.

Last year, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled Ved Dhingra wasn’t entitled to the money. Although he was found not criminally responsible, “he still physically committed the crime,” wrote Justice Andra Pollak.