The Ontario Court docket of Justice in Kingston, positioned inside the Macdonald-Cartier Constructing on Wellington Avenue. Photograph by Michelle Dorey Forestell/Kingstonist.
A person charged with two counts of homicide and certainly one of tried homicide in relation to a few stabbings on Montreal Avenue late final summer season made a short video courtroom look as we speak, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025, as his case haltingly proceeds.
Andre Wareham appeared by video earlier than magistrate Ruth Campbell in Kingston’s Ontario Court docket of Justice on Wellington Avenue. Obligation counsel indicated on behalf of Wareham’s lawyer, Steven Hinkson, that he was arranging a counsel pre-trial assembly and requested that the matter be adjourned to late January to permit that assembly to happen. When Wareham final appeared in courtroom, responsibility counsel relayed an identical message from Hinkson, noting Wareham’s lawyer was requesting adjournment of the case till January so he might converse with the Crown and set a judicial trial date.
Wareham, who’s presently incarcerated at Central East Correctional Centre (CECC) in Lindsay, was quiet and well mannered. He wore the customary orange jumpsuit of males in provincial custody, in addition to a black durag.
A 47-year-old Kingston resident, Wareham was arrested on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, following the deadly stabbings of two folks. A 3rd particular person was additionally stabbed and despatched to hospital with life-threatening accidents. Consequently, Wareham stands charged with two counts of second-degree homicide and one depend of tried homicide within the violent assaults. The stabbings occurred alongside Montreal Avenue, within the space across the Built-in Care Hub (ICH) and the adjoining encampment (although not truly within the ICH).
Following the violent incidents, the accused and police ended up in an hours-long standoff. Because the standoff continued, police confirmed that two of the three stabbing victims, Taylor Wilkinson, 38, and John Hood, 41, had died. Kingston Police wouldn’t determine the third sufferer, who was hospitalized, to guard that sufferer’s privateness.
The incidents resulted within the closure of the ICH and the elimination of these residing within the encampment adjoining to it. It was later confirmed that Wareham lived close to the ICH however was not a resident of the encampment.
Through the course of a number of courtroom appearances since Wareham was arrested, the record of individuals he has been ordered to not contact whereas in custody has grown to over 50.
Court docket paperwork from Thunder Bay present Wareham was charged with one other homicide in that metropolis in 2009: the stabbing demise of a neighbour. Wareham, represented then as now by Hinkson, testified that the killing was executed in self-defence. He was in the end discovered not responsible of the cost of second-degree homicide.
The present charges in opposition to him haven’t been examined in courtroom.
Kingstonist will proceed to comply with the matter because it proceeds via the courts.
