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Jul 7, 2021 · Candaele lied to police. When the accused was first questioned by police, he denied being with his wife and told officers she was missing. Security camera images from the area told a different...
Apr 9, 2024 · Ronald John Candaele killed Melissa Blommaert on Feb. 10, 2020. Following a trial in 2021, Candaele was convicted of second-degree murder when the judge found the killer intended to drive...
Aug 2, 2024 · A Calgary man with a “history of terrorizing” his wife should spend at least 15 years in prison for manslaughter after he fatally ran over the 33-year-old woman with a U-Haul, the Crown argued...
Aug 31, 2022 · Published Aug. 31, 2022 2:51 p.m. PDT. Share. A Calgary man who deliberately drove over his wife with a van during an argument and left her to die alone on a snow-covered street will not be...
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This publication compiles statistics from data sources across the Criminal Justice System (CJS), to provide a combined perspective on the typical experiences of females who come into contact with it. It considers how these experiences have changed over time and how they contrast to the typical experiences of males. No causative links can be drawn f...
Section 95 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 states that: Documents fulfilling this requirement have been published since 1992, in the form of statistical information. This report is a compendium of information from a range of data sources from across the CJS on the representation of females (and males) among victims, suspects, defendants and offend...
Males maintain higher risk of being victim to personal crime than females. In 2021/22, 3.3% of males were victim to personal crime, compared to 2.9% of females. In 2020/21, 594 homicides were recorded; 70% of victims were male and 30% female. In over half (54%) of female homicide victims (where the suspect was known), the suspect was their partner ...
The majority (85%) of arrests continue to be accounted for by males in 2021/22. The number of arrests has decreased by 3% when compared to 2019/20 but has increased by 2% in the latest year. The proportion of Out of Court Disposals (OOCDs) issued to females has fallen. The number of OOCDs issued overall has decreased in the latest 5 years. The prop...
In 2021, 79% of individuals dealt with by the Criminal Justice System were male, and 21% were female. The proportion of females dealt with has decreased from 26% in 2017 to 21% in 2021. This is likely a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions placed on criminal courts as a result. Between 2017 and 2019, proportions of females and males rem...
The majority (96%) of the prison population were male. As at 30 June 2022, 4% of the prison population were female, this proportion has remained stable for the last 5 years. Females were serving shorter custodial sentence lengths. As at 30 June 2022, 17% of females and 7% of males were serving sentences of less than 12 months. In the 2021/22 HM Ins...
Ethnic minority groups accounted for a higher proportion of prosecutions against males compared to females. In 2021 Black males were particularly over-represented, accounting for 12% of all male prosecutions. This compared to Black females accounting for 7% of all female prosecutions. A higher proportion of female offenders were first time offender...
TV licence evasion was the offence with the highest proportion of female defendants in 2021[footnote 127].
Apr 9, 2024 · Candaele was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 16 years in prison before being eligible for parole.
Kelly Candaele is a politician, filmmaker, teacher, and writer. For the past fifteen years, he has written extensively for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Nation and other national publications.
