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  • Ibrahim Ali: B.C. teen killer seeks to attend sentencing by video, cites safety
    A defence lawyer for Ibrahim Ali, who was convicted murdering a young teen girl in Burnaby says the man wants to appear at his sentencing hearing by video over safety fears.
    Crime
    Apr 16
  • Ibrahim Ali: Judge rejects B.C. teen killer’s bid to have conviction tossed for delays
    A B.C. Supreme Court judge has rejected an application to throw out the conviction of Ibrahim Ali for the murder of a young teen girl in Burnaby, B.C., over trial delays.
    Crime
    Apr 11
  • Ibrahim Ali: Crown blames defence for delays in B.C. teen murder trial
    A Crown lawyer says holdups to the trial of a man found guilty of murdering a young B.C. teen girl were mostly attributable to the defence and "discrete exceptional events."
    Crime
    Apr 8
  • Ibrahim Ali: B.C. teen killer wants verdict tossed over trial delays
    The lawyer for a man found guilty of killing a 13-year-old Burnaby, B.C., girl is asking a judge to stay the jury's verdict over unreasonable delays in getting the man to trial.
    Apr 2
  • B.C. judge rejects bid to bar father of murdered girl from killer’s proceedings
    A jury found Ibrahim Ali guilty of first-degree murder last December in the 2017 killing of a young teen girl in a Metro Vancouver park.
    Crime
    Feb 9
  • Lawyer for father of murdered B.C. girl denies client brought gun to Ali verdict
    Brock Martland, who represents the father, says it's an "unfounded proposition" that has been repeated several times by Ibrahim Ali's lawyers.
    Crime
    Feb 2
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  • B.C. killer Ibrahim Ali to be moved from psychiatric hospital to detention centre
    A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that Ali, convicted last month of murdering a teen girl, will be returned to the pretrial detention centre where he was held before his trial.
    Crime
    Jan 26
  • Ibrahim Ali: Murdered teen’s dad faces gun investigation, court hears
    The father of a murdered teen has been under police investigation for allegedly bringing a gun into a Vancouver courtroom on the day that Ibrahim Ali was convicted of the killing.
    Crime
    Jan 24
  • Police secretly got DNA from Kurds in B.C. probe of teen girl’s murder
    Ibrahim Ali was convicted in December of first-degree murder of a teenage girl in Burnaby whose name is protected by a publication ban.
    Crime
    Jan 15
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  • ‘Outrageous’: Threats to Ibrahim Ali’s lawyers spur court safety concerns in B.C.
    In the closing days of the trial, lawyer Kevin McCullough filed an affidavit describing more than a dozen messages he received, some with graphically violent threats.
    Canada
    Dec 17, 2023
  • Ibrahim Ali trial: Lawyer says police told him someone took gun into courtroom
    Ibrahim Ali's laywer says police told him a person close to the proceeding brought a handgun into the Vancouver courtroom on Friday with "intent to kill.''
    Crime
    Dec 11, 2023
  • Father of teen victim in Ibrahim Ali trial arrested and released: Vancouver police
    This follows the news that police are investigating allegations that someone brought a firearm into a Vancouver courtroom on Friday, as a jury convicted Ali of first-degree murder.
    Crime
    Dec 12, 2023
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  • Suspect connected to Toronto mother’s killing has fled Canada, police allege
    Toronto police are set to provide an update this morning on a shooting last summer that killed a 44-year-old mother of two who was hit by a stray bullet. 
    Crime
    Feb 7
  • B.C. jury finds Ibrahim Ali guilty of first-degree murder in 2017 teen slaying
    Ibrahim Ali had pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the July 2017 killing of a young girl. The victim's identity is protected by a publication ban.
    Crime
    Dec 8, 2023
  • ‘Fit but fragile’: Threats, dead witness, delays mark Ibrahim Ali’s murder trial
    Ibrahim Ali's lawyers reportedly couldn't get him to understand a key point — that he was still on trial for the first-degree murder of a young teen girl.
    Crime
    Dec 8, 2023
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  • Ibrahim Ali trial: Fate of accused B.C. teen murderer now in jury’s hands
    Ali has pleaded not-guilty to the July, 2017 killing of a young teen girl, whose body was found in Burnaby's Central Park.
    Crime
    Dec 7, 2023
  • Experts debate ethical use of genealogy tests by police
    The debate was highlighted in an investigation that revealed this week undercover police in Burnaby, B.C., disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect DNA.
    Science
    Jan 18
  • Ibrahim Ali trial: Dead teen not ‘innocent,’ defence tells jury
    Ibrahim Ali's lawyer says the young teen girl he's accused of murdering in a B.C. park wasn't the "innocent" depicted in a "rose-coloured" portrayal by the Crown at trial.
    Crime
    Dec 1, 2023
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  • Ibrahim Ali trial: Court falls silent for 2 minutes as Crown makes closing arguments
    WARNING: This story contains graphic details that may disturb readers. Discretion is advised.
    Crime
    Nov 30, 2023
  • Defence won’t call evidence in Ibrahim Ali B.C. teen murder trial
    Lawyers for Ibrahim Ali told a B.C. jury that they will not call any evidence in defence of their client, and that Crown prosecutors haven't proven he is guilty.
    Crime
    Nov 21, 2023
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