Turmoil in Detective Grus Trial as Prosecutor Leaves Ottawa Police
Officials Stonewall Questions on Whether Controversial Prosecutor Vanessa Stewart Remains on Grus Case
The disciplinary hearing of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus has plunged into chaos amid uncertainty surrounding the police prosecutor, Vanessa Stewart (photo above). Noted for her controversial courtroom behaviour and facing allegations of procedural abuses, Stewart is on a six-month leave from the Ottawa Police Service to join the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.
The refusal of police officials and Stewart herself to clarify her current involvement in the Grus case leaves the future of the hearing, set for January 5, 2025, shrouded in doubt.
Despite an automatic email reply confirming Stewart’s leave of absence and assignment to the Attorney General’s office, there has been a wall of silence from the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), the Attorney General’s office, and Stewart herself. Insider sources at the Ottawa Police Association reveal that Detective Grus, her attorney Bath-Shéba van den Berg, and the police union remain uninformed about Stewart’s departure or the ramifications for the case.
Further complicating matters, two police insiders report that Stewart’s contract with the OPS Legal Unit was terminated due to performance issues.
This development casts a shadow over prosecution continuity and integrity in a case already mired with allegations of bias and misconduct by prosecutors, prosecution witnesses, and the hearing officer.
Detective Helen Grus
Detective Grus was suspended on February 4, 2022, by the OPS Professional Standards Unit for allegedly conducting an ‘unauthorized’ investigation into nine unexplained infant deaths. She was exploring the possibility that the vaccination status of the mothers might be a factor in the fatalities. In July 2022, Grus was charged internally with one count of discreditable conduct under the Ontario Police Services Act.
The proceedings have been controversial – at times even raucous and chaotic – with defense attorneys accusing police witnesses, prosecution lawyers, and the Tribunal Hearing Officer of blatant bias. Shock rippled through legal circles upon the revelation that Prosecutor Stewart and a key prosecution witness are sisters-in-law—a glaring conflict of interest that would be unacceptable in any legitimate court. Yet, Hearing Officer Police Superintendent Chris Renwick, notably lacking legal training, permitted this infringement.
Concerns of bias were compounded by reports of interference from officials at the Public Health Agency of Canada, a matter that appeared on the House of Parliament Order Paper Questions in March 2024.
The Grus disciplinary hearing reached a boiling point on January 10, 2024, when defense lawyers levelled allegations of criminal witness tampering against Professional Standards Inspector Hugh O’Toole. Just minutes before Grus was set to testify, O’Toole sent her a threatening email obviously intended to intimidate Grus into changing her testimony and supporting exhibits.
Hugh O’Toole
In the wake of formal complaints alleging Criminal Intimidation of a Witness and Obstruction of Justice, O’Toole resigned from the OPS. He has since surfaced working as a lawyer at a Kemptville legal firm.
Illegal Wiretapping Scandal
Both Inspector O’Toole and Prosecutor Stewart were also implicated in the February 2022 illegal wiretapping of Detective Grus and her family under the “urgent emergency” provisions of the Criminal Code – when no such urgent emergency existed.
As the case approaches its third year, observers question whether the OPS will continue to pursue the charges against Detective Grus. Three key factors fuel this speculation:
1/ Emerging Evidence: Since Grus’s suspension almost three years ago, there has been a tsunami of credible evidence that the officer was correct all along in her suspicions.
Authorities in many jurisdictions have admitted that manufacturers and authorities concealed from the public that the shots were DNA contaminated, that the formulas presented for approval were not the vaccines that were fraudulently delivered, that the vaccines were known to be ineffective, and that it was known the vaccines caused serious harms and even deaths – including to babies in the womb and breastfeeding infants.
A decision by the Ottawa Police to continue the prosecution against Grus could come back to haunt them as any appeals process will take years – with additional evidence and case law, and developing public opinion weighing more heavily against OPS.
2/ Prosecution Evidence during the trial indicated that Detective Grus was investigating charges of Criminal Negligence Causing Bodily Harm and Death when the Ottawa Police ordered her to stop and suspended her.
Prosecution Evidence also indicated that Ottawa Police had received a complete evidence file from Detective Grus – yet failed to launch investigations into the alleged crimes.
An appeals process will take years, with the public becoming more aware of how the Ottawa Police neglected their duty to initiate an investigation into vaccination injuries and deaths as additional evidence and case law comes to light.
3/ Departures of Key Personnel: Inspector O’Toole and Prosecutor Stewart are the two people most responsible for charging and prosecuting Detective Grus. With both no longer employed by the Ottawa Police there are doubts about the OPS’s capacity to effectively manage the case now and in the future. Their departures could complicate the current proceedings and any subsequent appeals.
Will Ottawa Police Persist With A Faltering Prosecution?
The Ottawa Police leadership now faces a critical decision: persist with a faltering prosecution riddled with internal strife and burgeoning evidence supporting Grus, or withdraw the charges to mitigate further costs and damage to the organization’s credibility—a credibility already hanging by a thread.
Chaos. Confusion. Concealment.
The refusal of both the Ottawa Police and Vanessa Stewart to inform Detective Grus or her legal team about Stewart’s status—and their stonewalling of media inquiries—transcends mere lack of transparency; it borders on obstruction.
This pattern suggests deeper issues within the OPS. Words like confusion, indecision, and chaos seem insufficient to describe the turmoil.
For over two years, multiple insider sources have revealed a critical divide within OPS senior management over the Grus case. In this light, the ousting of Inspector O’Toole and the non-renewal of Stewart’s contract signal a possible turning point in favor of Detective Grus.
The pressing challenge for OPS leadership is to devise an exit strategy from the Grus debacle. Their goal must be to minimize further embarrassment, control escalating legal expenses, and address potential liability for defense costs, which reportedly approach $400,000.
Notes
Comprehensive coverage of the Detective Grus case with links to articles and sources since March of 2022 can be found at Donald Best’s website:
https://donaldbest.ca/detective-grus-case/
Emails Mentioned in this Article
20241028 email thread OPS Media Relations
20241107 1218pm Best To Stewart OPS
20241107 1219pm Auto Reply Stewart OPS
20241107 1222pm Best To Stewart AttGen
This article will be updated as more information becomes available.
As a mother whose child was assaulted, plus attempted murder by Ottawa Police protected pedophile with history of assault and murder, surviving the targeted violence to dispose of the parent so no questions asked about children, victimization, criminalization and persecution plus falsified, altered, dumped, sanitized, records, including influence of news, illegal home B & E entry, search and seizure of proof and evidence, strikes against person and property challenged with their evil, aggressive pack of wolves lawyer-liars, corrupt Officers – the evil from top down Political ties and bottom up affiliation) greased palms and organized local.criminals, blatant expertise evil long established, well solidified, perpetrators related to biz of children – procuring, trafficking, exploitation, grooming, drug supplying multi $ industry pointing out potential Covid baby killing (protection of the Pharma suppliers and dead babies (ideal for organ selling or student medical cadavers disposables), the thumb print is: if it’s evil, it’s them. The countries problem when effecting a person or group often not recognized given the personal trama- drama circumstance instead connected to a bigger picture may well share a common root. The Grus case strongly indicate ‘a lot of people’ have a lot to loose, if truth, if explored relates to Classified National Defense experiments, non disclosed for reasons of National Defense deployed on and upon unsuspecting citizens, not admitted to that usually involves medical-pharmaceutical, doctors, citizens deaths, selection of vulnerable, access to information, medical records and how into ‘such hands’ evil is used. The Toronto-Ottawa network of Police with military and gov officials ties history of corruption, cover up road kill’ operations (domestic and international criminals) countries problem
Roots run wide and deep. The Grus and fight for what is right down played to Employee-employment issues involves horrific anguish caused to many. The case is comparable to the need to discover the DND military COVID contract probably Titled appearing friendly or inoxious (like a new language needing interpretation by a seasoned scientist to its real meaning in layman terms, plain English to Medical-Pharma Companies related to children and infants and Hospital(s) narrowed down to Drs for COVID outcomes or Medical Experiments on infants. to hold Oversight, Accountability and Transparent medical malpractices without informed consent of unwitting participant families as is common and custom to DND government medical contracts where the Eugenics carried out and deployed by participating criminal elements shares strong comparison to a number of other Classified, non disclosed (covered up) cases involving experiments on general public, and demise, no matter how small. Diversions due to muzzling, shut down, take out of Canadian academe, intellects and independent Researchers identified, listed, targeted from information gathering and how it is used in combination with no voice or venue to be heard. Truth seekers, lives, careers, finances undermined by cruel oppressors leaves the vacuum filled with lack of expertise or access to those with direct life experience skilled to identify the countries problem roots, multiple effects in the worst of ways. Those responsible are not discovered to avoid law suites whose ideology of Justice is JUST US, in power and control, cruel oppression, of threat, perpetrators thrive on persecution, victimizing victims are venomous snakes adept at deception and destruction of innocent lambs as the Grus case and concerns indicate, know no bounds.
Thank you for this update. I really hope this show trial tribunal ends so Detective Grus can get on with her life. These horrid people have hurt Detective Grus and her family. The amount of trauma caused by criminal conspiracy against people like Detective Grus causes irreparable harm. Trust is broken in the police and justice system and to see the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General hire Vanessa Stewart is both an insult and perhaps a threat to people to be quiet.
The UN Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights has definitely been violated. The 4 principles of Bioethics ignored by doctors and the government and the police. Bioethics was introduced into the Declaration of Human Rights to encompass new medical technologies. MRNA is a new technology that was experimental and there is no getting around that. Tons and tons of medical research papers to support how experimental it really was.
The main focus here on Bioethics is to do no harm to patients with any new technologies. Doctors especially are to uphold human rights and to call for refusal of healthcare to the unvaccinated or deny organ transplants is a direct violation of the 4 principles that are the foundation of Bioethics and Human Rights. Another principle that provides protection of human rights is for doctors to have mercy and kindness. There was no mercy shown to Detective Grus investigating 9 baby deaths and it was a malicious conspiracy to cover up criminal negligence. PHAC is under obligation to uphold the principles of Bioethics and human rights and they failed. Is the Ministry of the Attorney General going to continue to insult Canadians by not holding the violation of Bioethics and Human Rights to the highest order of investigation or are they covering up for their own negligence and own violation of Bioethics and Human Rights refusing to show mercy and kindness to all who chose not to take these experimental vaccines. Calling for the firing of the unvaccinated from their jobs or putting Detective Grus on leave of her job duties is a direct violation of Bioethics and Human Rights. This was an investigation of 9 sudden baby deaths of which Detective Grus had the legal right to investigate and a thorough investigation of the motives of those who stopped her investigation by a malicious charge of discredible conduct and a fraud tribunal needs to be investigate. We have a whole bunch of cowards here.
Hopefully the nightmare ends for Detective Grus. Egos in the way of human rights and mercy and kindness.
Excellent reporting Donald. I really appreciate your attention to this ever so important case. I will be at the hearing January 6th to see what OPS will try this time. But it seems that they tossed all their wild cards Ofool and Stewart. OPS should withdrawal and lay down on their sword and end their own embarrassment and malicious prosecution. Heavy reporting is needed. I wish Helen true justice compensation and her day for truth telling. The censorship complex is dying in Canada. Injuries and poor health is everywhere because of the shots and mandates. Every rational person sees it. OPS is still trying to hide the big lie. It was never theirs to cover up it was always their duty to protect the babies. Not smear a detective and try to cover the deaths up.
Are you serious this prosecutor who has committed such judicial abuses is working for the Ontario Attorney General’s Office?
The bullies at the Ministry of Attorney General of Ontario are heaped with allegations of corruption bribery falsifying documents and fabricating documents so they bring in this non credible person to work for them. What a mockery. Has charges ever come to the bullies there?
The foreign interference inquiry has literally shown cognitive warfare against the Canadian citizens in order to cover up criminal.acts. These clowns in power have used every tactic to cover up criminal acts.
So when did this memo go out? When did Detective Grus lawyer get told this new development. Wait will this case be thrown out using too long for trial due to delays. The same lines they used to let drug dealers and other organized crime off. Would be great for this kangaroo trial to be thrown out. Kangaroo Courts are fraud. They are criminal abuse of power and breach of trust.
In the Simon Rosenfeld sentencing of the money laundering lawyer the Judge stated lawyers have to be held to a higher standard of trust and conduct. I guess other Judges and Attorney Generalls and prosecutors haven’t gotten that memo. Miscarriage of Justice.
Thank you for your persistence in keeping this case in the public eye, Donald.
These characters actually believe, and have believed for decades now, that they are above the law. They may be above their own fictitious ‘laws’, but they are not above God’s laws.
Please, keep at it.