Friends and family of a 23-year-old woman slain in Toronto late last year have built a memorial near where her body was discovered so she isn’t forgotten. Robin Brideau, 32, of Toronto, said building a giant stone memorial for his slain friend, Leanne Freeman, has been a labour of love.
The memorial is close to where Freeman’s injured body was found in November 2011, after she was shot in the head. Brideau said he wants others to remember Freeman, who moved to Toronto shortly before her death and also had ties to Winnipeg and Thunder Bay.
“Somebody needed to get it done,” said Brideau.
The memorial is located on a roadside near the waterfront east of downtown. It’s about one metre tall and two metres long.
The value of the granite memorial is more than $30,000, thanks to hand-engraving, which was donated.
Brideau said he was angered by reports his friend was involved in prostitution, something he said is inaccurate.
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Toronto Escorts: Bandit faces deportation
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Federal Court Judge Michel Shore threw out the appeal last month and ordered the deportation to take effect “as soon as it is realistically feasible to do so.”
Court heard Es-Sayyid was jailed for using a knife and sawed-off shotgun for the June 2007 robbery of an escort and her girlfriend in their apartment. He got away with $1,910, the victim’s purse, cell phones and identification cards.
Es-Sayyid was convicted of using a shotgun in July 2007 to rob a private club and patrons of $3,000 in cash and $1,500 in personal goods.
And, on July 26, 2007, Es-Sayyid armed with another gun, and an accomplice, robbed a third sex worker in her hotel room of her purse containing $505 in cash, two credit cards, two cell phones, identification cards and personal effects.
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