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Kitchener man charged following after-hours liquor investigation
Kitchener man charged following after-hours liquor investigation

CTV News

time3 days ago

  • CTV News

Kitchener man charged following after-hours liquor investigation

Waterloo Regional Police have laid multiple charges following an ongoing investigation under the Liquor Licence and Control Act at a property in Kitchener. On Sunday morning, members of the Crime Suppression Analysis and Response North Direct Action Response Team (DART) executed a Provincial Offence Warrant at a location near Victoria Street North and St. Leger Street. As a result, a 40-year-old man was charged with six offences, including unlawfully selling liquor, unlawfully possessing liquor, unlawfully keeping liquor for sale, permitting disorderly conduct on licensed premises, unlawfully permitting individuals to consume open liquor in a public place and permitting intoxication on licensed premises. Police said they seized several bottles of liquor and cases of beer from the property, which was operating as an illegal after-hours establishment. All individuals inside the location were safely cleared.

‘Cloud of secrecy' that's failing Australian parents
‘Cloud of secrecy' that's failing Australian parents

News.com.au

time5 days ago

  • News.com.au

‘Cloud of secrecy' that's failing Australian parents

As Victoria police investigate a number of sexual assault claims linked to Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Brown, lawyer and sexual assault advocate Andrew Carpenter has made a disturbing revelation about another high profile child abuse investigation. Brown, 26, was charged in May with more than 70 offences including sexual activity in presence of a child under 16, sexual assault of a child under 16 and possessing child abuse material. He has yet to enter pleas to the charges. Carpenter's comments, made on Gary Jubelin's I Catch Killers podcast, refer to the handling of the investigation of serial paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith, who last year was sentenced to life in prison for sexual offences relating to at least 73 victims, mostly girls aged between three and five years old, in several early childhood centres across a span of nearly 20 years. Griffith is one of Australia's worst paedophiles, and his crimes shocked the public when, in 2022, the AFP announced the charges against him. Yet Carpenter describes the handling of that investigation – especially in comparison to that currently underway in Victoria – as being 'covered in a cloud of secrecy,' revealing there had been complaints against Griffith since 2014. 'I applaud the Victorian police for their work,' says Carpenter. 'As soon as they uncovered the alleged offender in Victoria, they identified 24 centres where crimes have been alleged to have occurred, they notified thousands of parents and students as to what centres they were, a timeframe in which the alleged offender was working there, and they got on the front foot, set up hotlines for individuals to get information, and asked 1200 children to get STI checks.' In Griffith's case, says Carpenter, the response couldn't have been more different. 'The hardest thing with [Griffith's case] is that the public still doesn't know what centres this offender went to,' he explains. 'And we are talking about almost 3000 counts at the start. I think they whittled it down to about 1500, but it was 73 children that he pleaded guilty to abusing. And the public still does not know which centres he worked at and which timeframe this occurred in.' 'Griffith's crimes were preventable and foreseeable,' he says. 'There were people dating back nine years who actually first raised concerns about him. He was spoken to by the police, but they didn't even take steps to go through his device, on which they would've found tens of thousands of images of child abuse. His crimes were calculated and over a span of time, and the parents that complained about him earlier on didn't see any recourse.' A father himself, Carpenter believes there could be 'hundreds, if not thousands of other students out there that have been impacted by this individual in Queensland that will never be known.' He says the very young age of Griffith's victims would mean many of them may not be able to properly recall events well enough to disclose the abuse. 'I asked my oldest son who's five today, if he remembers a child that he went through preschool and kindy with that he last saw a year ago,' he continues. 'He couldn't remember who it was. And you've got children now, five years after the fact of when this guy had his main offences – they wouldn't remember a thing that happened to them. So the issue here is that we've got one police force that's coming out on the front foot saying 'we need to adequately investigate this now', and then we've got the Queensland police officers that have investigated [Ashley Griffith's crimes] within a cloud of secrecy, where the full extent of his crimes will never be truly known.' 'I mean, we're not even at the tip of the iceberg with Queensland,' adds Carpenter. Equally disturbing, the lawyer says a whistleblower seeking to make media aware of Griffith's crimes ended up being charged with computer hacking. She was later found not guilty of computer hacking allegations. When 60-year-old Queensland grandmother Yolanda Borucki spoke to A Current Affair producers about failings in the investigation into Griffith's crimes, she quickly found herself at the centre of a police raid. Yolanda told reporters that she had made a complaint about Griffith at a Uniting Church childcare facility a year beforehand, but nothing was done. 'A few days later, a task force rocked up at her doorstep and raided her house, and she got charged with computer hacking,' explains Carpenter. 'All for simply saying, 'here is evidence of me providing the childcare centre proof that I had made a previous complaint.' She went through the ringer of a trial and her fight got made public,' he continues. 'Yet the offender who sat in secrecy for many years was able to keep his anonymity for quite some time.'

‘Multiple dead bodies found in woods' as cops launch urgent probe to work out ‘how many there are'
‘Multiple dead bodies found in woods' as cops launch urgent probe to work out ‘how many there are'

The Sun

time5 days ago

  • The Sun

‘Multiple dead bodies found in woods' as cops launch urgent probe to work out ‘how many there are'

MULTIPLE bodies have been discovered in a woods following a police investigation into a missing man. The shocking find was made after officers discovered the body of Daniel Coleman the woodlands near Sticker, in Cornwall. 1 Devon and Cornwall Police are continuing to scour the woods with the help of officers from across the UK. Police and crime commissioner Alison Hernandez told a panel today that number of "dead bodies" have been discovered. Ms Hernandez said: "Some of the elements of that operation I can't speak about but some of the things are very obvious. "As you know there is a large crime scene that has been identified in Cornwall that is requiring a lot of effort to even scene guard the area. "The level of expertise, some of the mutual aid we've brought in, is expertise in specific types of investigations that we didn't have. "The National Crime Agency is supporting the organisation at the moment. "I want to thank all the other forces that are coming in at a very busy time for themselves to offer mutual aid. "It's largely investigative mutual aid that we've brought in. "Until some of those elements have been established of exactly what we're dealing with there, it will be made public at that time. "I know there's been some information in the media. We've got a huge forensic tent down there. "Lots of forensics officers, obviously we've found dead bodies in that wood. "We're just trying to establish how many there may be at this point in time and whether we are aware of who they are or what might have happened to them. "So we also don't know how long they may have been there, some of them." is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video.

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