If you have a case involving Constable Guangnan (Garry) SUN, you will want to know this.
Carjackers will intentionally cause minor crashes before stealing the vehicle once a victims exits to inspect the damage. According to YRP reported in The Star –
York Regional Police are warning the public about the return of a trend where suspects purposely crash into vehicles and then steal them.
Carjackers will intentionally drive into victims’ vehicles, causing minor crashes, police said in a release. When the victim exits their car to check for damage, the suspects will confront them, often with firearms, before stealing the vehicle. Some offenders will distract the victim to allow another suspect to steal the vehicle while the owner isn’t looking, according to police.
Four staged carjackings were attempted in Markham, Vaughan and Richmond Hill since November, police said. In one case, the suspects failed to steal the vehicle.
Police advise residents to be aware of their surroundings and to contact police immediately or drive to a police station if they feel they are being followed.
In November, two of these carjackings took place in Markham. In the first, the victim was rear-ended by two suspects in a Honda sedan. When the victim got out of his Lexus, the two suspects approached him with firearms. One stole the victim’s car, while the other fled in the Honda.
In the second case, a suspect on a bicycle rode into the side of the victim’s Cadillac Escalade. When the victim left his vehicle to check on the cyclist, two more suspects got out of a dark sedan behind the vehicle and threatened the victim with a firearm before stealing the Escalade.
On Jan. 9, suspects lightly rear-ended another Cadillac Escalade, this time in Vaughan. When the victim left her car to assess the damage, she was confronted by two suspects, one of whom was armed with a firearm. The suspects tried to steal her vehicle but failed due to a kill switch installed inside.
On Jan. 17, a similar carjacking happened in Richmond Hill after a suspect rear-ended a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon with a dark-coloured SUV, and stole the vehicle when the victim got out of his vehicle.
Anyone with information regarding the carjackings is asked to contact the York Regional Police Hold-Up Unit at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 6630, or leave an anonymous tip online or by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Credit also has to be given to JAMES LOCKYER for his tireless advocacy over many years to bring this to fruition.
Lawyers in England are refusing to represent some people because their legal aid system is insufficient to maintain a viable practice. The legal aid system in Ontario is similarly perpetually on the brink.
“Lawyers are refusing to represent people charged with certain crimes amid a crisis over solicitors’ pay, with one burglary suspect turned away by 12 legal firms, the Law Society president has said. Richard Atkinson, who leads the organisation representing more than 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales, said its members lost money if they took such cases and warned that other crimes, including lower level sexual offences, also risked becoming uneconomic for practitioners.”
Since 1982 accused persons have had the right to a trial within a reasonable time. We’ve had the Askov, Morin and now the Jordan cases of the Supreme Court of Canada trying to ensure that right, with only limited success. So now the courts are stacking cases on top of other cases on their daily trial lists that have no possibility of being reached for trial on that date.
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED – Every person charged with a criminal offence has the constitutional right to have their trial held within a reasonable time. Our Supreme Court has twice attempted to define what is reasonable through the cases of Askov and Jordan. The result has been decades of hundreds of cases being “stayed” from proceeding due to delay and further delays caused by the complex application procedures required to assert that right. Nothing has changed. Simply demanding that the trial process proceed expeditiously doesn’t work.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR BAIL SYSTEM? – The federal government enacts the criminal code. The province applies it. The province builds and owns the courts. The province hires the Judges, the Justices of the Peace, the Crown Attorneys and court staff.
“The administration of bail is a provincial responsibility,” the Minister’s office said in a statement provided to CityNews.
“Ontario must step up and ensure their courts and prosecutors are well resourced, that provincially appointed Justices of the Peace are applying the law — and when they don’t — provincially appointed crowns need to initiate bail reviews.
“Doug Ford also needs to ensure that there are enough spaces in provincial detention facilities to house people in custody awaiting trial. It’s time to stop deflecting and start enforcing the laws we’ve already passed in collaboration with them.”https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/10/03/feds-fire-back-at-ford-over-bail-barbs-saying-its-a-provincial-responsibility/
