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)

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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.

Canada-wide arrest warrants for Prince George fugitive

Yehonathan Tommer

Michael Andreou Michalakis

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – Police have appealed to the public for help in arresting a 51-year-old man wanted for immigration-related and sexually-related offences.

The suspect, Michael Andreou Michalakis , alias Andreou Michaels, of Prince George is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant and two provincial-wide warrants.

On May 3rd, a Canada-wide arrest warrant was issued after Michalakis failed to comply with court-imposed conditions in Prince George, BC.

A province-wide warrant was also issued that same day after Michalakis failed to comply with probation conditions.

A second province-wide warrant was issued on May 4th, after Michalakis failed to comply on five counts for breach of probation.

All the warrants are connected to an incident dating to October 2011 in which Michalakais is charged with alleged sexual assault.

 By STEVE BRUCE Court Reporter

Two Israeli nationals have pleaded not guilty to immigration charges stemming from a sweep of illegal workers in the Halifax area in December.

Immigration lawyer Lee Cohen entered the pleas Monday when he appeared in Halifax provincial court on behalf of Iftach Jacob, 23, and Nissan Shitrit, 22.

Both men are charged under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act with working in Canada without authorization.

Jacob also faces charges of employing foreign nationals without authorization and failing to adhere to the conditions of a visitor permit.

The two men are living in the Toronto area while they’re out on bail.

International criminals slipping into Canada

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.