Descending into the life of a reoffender

Dikila M’Bosso, leaving a courtroom at the Montreal courthouse with his lawyer Mary Hélène Giroulx and an unidentified woman on April 10, 2012, is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery. He is also charged with possessing ammunition for at least three types of prohibited firearms, and in a separate case for leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. Photograph by: Phil Carpenter , Montreal Gazette

The four youngsters who assaulted a 64-year-old Montrealer seven years ago have become career criminals
By Paul Cherry, The Gazette April 16, 2012

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MONTREAL – On Jan. 3, 2005, Martha Taylor Gregory, a 64-year-old grandmother, was stabbed and beaten by four teenagers who were out joyriding in a stolen minivan and decided to steal her car on a whim. It was a senseless crime that captured the attention of Montrealers. The teens were all between 13 and 17. All four were quickly arrested and convicted in youth court. They served between 12 and 16 months in youth detention facilities. A look back at the crime has revealed that all four have since reoffended and three have serious adult criminal records. One is an alleged street gang member facing deportation, another is serving an 11-year sentence for a sexual assault.

Sporting a track suit and using an overly familiar tone when addressing the judge before him, Dikila M’Bosso, 21, waived his right to a preliminary inquiry on Friday in a case where the alleged street gang member is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery.

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M’Bosso has kept the provincial courts busy this month. On April 4, he also had a court date in Laval for allegedly leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. He failed to show up for that hearing.

Each court date serves as a reminder M’Bosso has been a man in limbo since March 14, 2011, when the Federal Court of Canada confirmed a previous decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board ordering his removal. The immigration department’s position is that M’Bosso is inadmissible in Canada on two grounds – because he is part of a criminal organization and has a criminal record that already involves several convictions. During his immigration hearing, the Montreal police alleged M’Bosso has, since the age of 16, been part of two street gangs controlled by the Bo-Gars, a gang based in northern Montreal.

The People Speak : Raped student less important than foreign student money

Immigration Watch Canada

THE PEOPLE SPEAK

From C.W. : On New Year’s Eve,  my twenty-year-old niece was drugged, abducted and sexually assaulted over a six hour period. The offence took place in a student residence at a prairie university. She was in and out of consciousness. Her attacker is an apparently wealthy International  student from Nigeria. Her mother contacted police, and other authorities including the university’s security, to make sure that a video of the offender entering the building had been saved. But the university had not saved the video. When asked why news of this rape that took place on campus had not been made public, an official from the university said that they did not want to discourage international students from coming to Canada.

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From T.D. : Regarding the recent matter of the Muslim killer in the south of France who targeted minority groups, I must say that I find it interesting, and slightly bizarre, that while the search was on for this individual, our CBC news department referred to the individual as a ‘racist’ killer. However, when it was revealed that the suspect was an Arab from North Africa – an Algerian, to be more precise – all of a sudden, the killer was no longer a ‘racist’ killer, but – if one can use such a description – a ‘normal’ killer.

It really has left me scratching my head a little. There would seem to me to be some confused people in the CBC news department. Is one to conclude that, in the eyes of the CBC, one is only a ‘racist’ killer if the killer is ‘white’? Or that it is not a ‘racist’ crime to kill a Jew if the killer is a North African Arab? If the French Algerian had killed ‘white’ people, would the crimes have constituted ‘racist’ crimes or not?

Might I suggest that there is much fodder here for some in-depth analysis on the CBC?

Suspect arrested in “vicious” downtown sex assault

 Ashleigh Smollet, CityNews.ca

Nathan Bumesi is suspect in “vicious” sexual assault of woman in her 50s

Toronto police have arrested a suspect in what they describe as a “vicious” sexual assault early Tuesday morning.

Police say that around 3 a.m., they responded to a call in the Dundas and Sherbourne area.

A passerby heard a woman screaming for help. They then spotted a naked, unconscious woman lying on the ground in a parkette.

The passerby called 911, and police found the victim, who they say is in her 50s, suffering from severe facial injuries.

She is now in serious condition in hospital.

“This was definitely a vicious attack on the woman,” said Toronto police Const. Tony Vella.

“She’s still unconscious. We haven’t even had the opportunity to speak with the woman as yet…Again, this was a vicious, vicious attack on a woman in her 50s.”

Nathan Bumesi, 21, of Toronto has been arrested and charged with:

• Choking

• Forcible confinement

• Aggravated assault

• Aggravated sexual assault

• Attempted murder

Bumesi will appear in court at College Park Wednesday April 4 at 10 a.m.

Man fighting deportation since February 2011 after two previous convictions

By Stephane Massinon, Calgary Herald

The man who was charged with sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled woman on Wednesday was deemed “likely to reoffend” when he was ordered deported from Canada last month.

Louay Khalil, 34, has been fighting his February 2011 deportation — he was ordered out of the country on the grounds of serious criminality after two sexual assault convictions on strangers he met on the bus — back to Lebanon.

He appealed the deportation and the Immigration and Refugee Board tossed out the appeal last month. In its removal order, the board said Khalil had not sought any professional help.

“These offences are serious and without any credible promise of change, I find the appellant is likely to reoffend,” wrote IRB member Lynne Cunningham in her decision dated February 18, 2012.

But he has not been deported because he has two unrelated sexual assault cases pending before the courts and those take precedent.

In the most recent case, Calgary police say he befriended the vulnerable victim at a restaurant on Wednesday evening, lured her to a northeast home and sexually assaulted her.

BY KEVIN MARTIN ,CALGARY SUN

The alleged rape of a wannabe white supremacist by his ethnic cellmates was simply a gay frolic between three consenting adults, court was told Tuesday.

Ali Sanghar, who is Middle Eastern, testified he awoke to discover the white man and their black cellmate having intercourse at the Calgary Remand Centre.

And Sanghar said he then joined in, having already had a consensual sexual encounter with the man earlier that same day.

Both Sanghar and Samar Sigar faces charges of sexual assault with a weapon in connection with the May 30, 2010 incident at the northwest Calgary jail.

BY PAUL TURENNE ,WINNIPEG SUN

Ndyat accepts an award for his community service initiative "Bridging Cultures"

A community leader convicted of rape was handed a four-year prison term Tuesday in a Winnipeg courtroom so full of supporters that some were being turned away at the door.

Several dozen supporters of Hilaire Ndyat, 43, shouted messages of love and support during breaks in Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, and some proclaimed his innocence as sheriffs led him from the courtroom after his sentence was delivered.

In return, Ndyat raised his clasped hands — still bound by handcuffs — several times and flashed a two-fingered peace sign as he exited the room on his way back to jail, where a remaining sentence of just over three years awaits him.