A coroner’s inquest into the death of a Nunavut man who died while in RCMP custody heard conflicting testimony from an ambulance driver, a bylaw officer and police, about Austin Maniyogena’s condition between the time he hit his head on a Kugluktuk street and when he was put in an RCMP cell.Austin Maniyogena (right) with…
The sister of an eastern Ontario man who was fatally shot at an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment in 2017 says she hopes to learn more about her brother’s final minutes during a coroner’s inquest that begins this week.Babak Saidi’s sister Elly Saidi had called for a coroner’s inquest into her brother’s shooting death at an OPP detachment. Now, more…
Six years after Abdurahman Hassan, a Somali man with mental illness, died while being restrained in immigration custody, Ontario has set an inquest into the death of the 39-year-old.Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan died at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre on July 11, 2015 after being transferred from the Central East Correctional Centre, otherwise known as Ontario’s Lindsay jail. (Frank…
