A sexual assault trial ground to a halt on Tuesday in Yellowknife after the accused asked for a Tlicho interpreter. Leon Nasken, 65, is facing a single count of sexual assault. According to RCMP, he was charged in May of 2018 after a complaint from a woman. It is not…
In a rare, if not unprecedented decision in the Northwest Territories, a Supreme Court judge has lifted a publication ban on the name of a victim of a sexual assault and forcible confinement in Ndilo in 2017. The victim, Cynthia Grandjambe of Yellowknife, had requested that the ban be lifted…
A sentencing hearing began in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Thursday for a Ndilo man convicted of two counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement. Peter Tsetta, 50, was found guilty by a judge in August. Court heard he held two women against their will at his home…
A Yellowknife man has been sentenced to five years in jail after he was convicted of having sex with three underage girls. Joshua “Taz” Desjarlais, 27, who is originally from Fort Smith, was handed his punishment by Supreme Court Judge Shannon Smallwood this afternoon in Yellowknife. She had found him…
The Peter Tsetta trial resumed Tuesday in Yellowknife after adjourning back in May. He’s the 50-year-old Ndilo man, charged with two counts of sexual assault and forcible confinement on two different female victims. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in 2017 at Tsetta’s home in Ndilo. Court has already…
A Yellowknife man, who skipped out on his sexual assault trial one day after a jury had been picked, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for failure to attend court. Alden Lennie, 35, was a no-show in court back in January. A warrant was issued for his arrest…
Closing arguments by the Crown prosecutor and a defence lawyer are expected to start Wednesday morning in the sexual assault trial for a Lutsel K’e man. Paul Catholique, 43, took the witness stand in his own defence in a Yellowknife courtroom on Tuesday. He was charged in November of 2017…
A trial is now underway in Yellowknife for a Ndilo man, accused of sexually assaulting a woman and forcibly confining her while he was out on bail for the exact same offences. Peter Tsetta, 50, is accused of attacking both women in 2017. At least two women’s advocates in the…
A Whati man has been found guilty of sexual assault for having sex with a 13-year-old girl at his home in August, 2016. A jury in Yellowknife, made up of eight men and four women, deliberated for about four hours on Friday before convicting Cory Nitsiza, 29. This was actually…