08 Apr 2022 • 3 hours ago • 4 minutes reading • 5 Comments Liberia’s alleged war criminal, Bill Horas, 44, who was killed during a house raid in London on June 21, 2020, had “professional interactions” with His alleged killer, Kieron Gregory, 22, of North York, right, say London police. (Is provided)
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A veteran Toronto police officer has admitted to leaking the address of a London homicide victim to his son, who is accused of the 2020 murder that made international headlines.
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Dec.-Const. Trevor Gregory, 47, appeared on video in a London courtroom on Friday and pleaded guilty to breach of trust. The son of Toronto police officer Keiron Gregory, 23, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Bill Horrace, 44, an alleged Liberian warlord who was shot inside the south-east London home where he lived with his wife. and two children. Neighbors are watching police and firefighters at Pochard Lane in east London on Sunday, June 21, 2020, following the fatal shooting of Bill Horrace, 44, who was living on the street with his wife and two children. (DALE CARRUTHERS / THE LONDON FREE PRESS) Cairon Gregory contacted his father the day before the deadly shooting, saying a man he had met at a Toronto hotel “snatched him for a large sum of money through an illegal money laundering scheme,” according to an agreed-upon statement of facts. read by the crown’s lawyer Konrad de Koning. The youngest Grigoris gave his father the license plate number of the Honda Civic driven by the man. Elder Gregory used his Toronto police account to put the license plate in Carfax, but provided only the model of the vehicle, not the name or address of the owner.
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Dec.-Const. Grigoris, off duty at the time, contacted several police colleagues to give the license plate, but received no response, so he called the 53rd Division and asked an officer to ask for the license plate, claiming it was a suspicious vehicle. The officer named the vehicle’s owner, Joyce Horrace, Bill Horrace’s wife, and her address in London at Det.-Const. Grigoris, who wrote it on a piece of paper. The elder Gregory called his son and told him to come to his house, where he invited him in and to a room where he had put a piece of paper. “Trevor said nothing to Kairon about the paper and left the room. While Trevor was out of the room. . . “Keiron took a photo of the paper that was later found on Keiron’s cell phone,” de Koning said.
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“The accused admits that he was deliberately blind in passing on information and, therefore, is responsible for Keiron receiving the information written on the piece of paper as if he had delivered it directly to him.” There was no evidence that Elder Gregory knew that Horrace would be a homicide, de Koning said. But Dec.-Const. Gregory, who knew his son was involved in illegal activity, did not report the alleged theft to police, said de Koning, who is seeking a prison sentence for the 23-year-old Toronto police officer. Defense attorney David Butt said he would present extensive letters of recommendation to his client as well as working papers. The date of the sentence will be set on April 20. Dec.-Const. Gregory, who remains on pay suspension, still faces four counts of professional misconduct under the Police Service Act, which requires police to conduct disciplinary hearings for professional misconduct. The case will continue after the completion of the criminal case.
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The statement of events read in the archive on Friday also contained details of Horrace’s death, some of which had previously been brought before civil and Det.-Const. The case of professional misconduct of Grigoris. Four men were forced into a house at 232 Pochard Lane, south of Clarke and Gore Streets, and shot Horrace in the chest before stealing $ 20,000 in cash and a cell phone. Investigators found Keiron Gregory’s phone in the living room and his blood was found all over the house and in a vehicle later found in Toronto, according to the court. Keiron Gregory was arrested in North Bay three weeks after the fatal shooting and later released on bail. His preliminary hearing began earlier this month. Google Maps: The red icon indicates the location of Pochard Lane in London. Horrace’s widow, children and siblings have filed a $ 750,000 lawsuit over the unlawful deaths of Trevor and Keiron Gregory, Toronto police, retired former Chief Mark Saunders, the Toronto Police Council and three anonymous men.
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The lawsuit alleges that Toronto police acted negligently in allowing the father and son to access information in the police crime database and says that the force was not sufficient to prevent the information from being leaked. The death of Horrace, who had seven children with three different women, has caused “extreme emotional shock and mental pain to all members of his family,” according to the 17-page lawsuit. Horrace was under investigation by Canada’s Crime Against Humanity and War Crimes Program, according to a 2010 article in Maclean’s Magazine citing witness statements accusing Horrace and the men under his command of atrocities, including murder, rape and rape. . But Horrace, who arrived in Canada in 2002, claimed to have become a priest at the age of 17 for the self-proclaimed government in rebel-held territories before leaving the country after a clash with a commander who ordered him to the front lines. . in the documents submitted for the offer of permanent residence that were in progress at the time of his death. [email protected]
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