15-03-2018 01:12 via ottawacitizen.com

Ottawa judge not convinced ByWard Market stabbing was intentional

A 17-year-old boy on trial for a 2016 stabbing in the ByWard Market has been acquitted after prosecutors failed to establish it was intentional.
The teen, who testified in his own defence, said two men and a women he was trying to buy drugs from had started the fight — not him.
He was outnumbered and felt scared, court heard. He called his attackers monsters.
After falling to the ground a second time during the fight, the boy told court he saw a knife on the ground and grabbed it and that
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