Ottawa Police Add Charges Of Attempted Murder To HIV Positive Man, Victoria Police Investigating Hate Crime After Gay Couple Told Their Rainbow Fag Lives Would Be Pissed Over, Decapitated Head Of Ugandan Gay Activist Found On Farm Latrine Pit

For reasons that remain unclear, Ottawa, Ontario police upgraded the charges against 29 year old Steven Boone, already charged with failing to disclose his HIV positive status to four alleged victims and now facing four counts of attempted murder. He has also been charged with four counts of administering a noxious substance – HIV – to the four men. The new charges now bring the total of thirty-one against Boone, including fourteen charges of aggravated sexual assault, who also faces seven similar charges in Waterloo, Ontario. A bail hearing began late last week and is continuing this week; the evidence presented at the hearing is subject to a publication ban.

In Victoria, British Columbia, police are investigating a possible hate crime after 45 year old Donell McDonell and his partner 47 year old David St. Jean were assaulted outside their home by two men, friends of the couple’s next door neighbour. According to reports, on the evening of June 29th one of the friends began hurling objects at the home shared by McDonell and St. Jean as well as yelling a number of homophobic remarks. The objects damaged the home’s landscaping. McDonell contends that the pair was acting in retaliation against the couple for complaining to police the previous weekend about noise coming from the neighbour’s home. McDonell says that during the altercation, “they were threatening to ‘fuck us up’ if we don’t move,” and added that the men said they would “piss all over our rainbow fag lives.”

The decapitated head of Pasikali Kashusbe, a volunteer for Integrity Uganda, a gay advocacy group founded by Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, was discovered in a pit latrine on a farm in Makindye Sabagabo, in the Wakiso District. A mutilated male torso was discovered earlier in the week, near the farm, its genitals had been removed. Pasikali had been missing for nearly a month. Police found the head while searching for a missing priest – Reverend Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga – who disappeared two and half weeks ago after he delivered a speech at St. Paul’s Church supporting the rights of homosexuals in Uganda.