Johnathon Robert Madden
Murder victim
Died when: 12 years 198 days (150 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Johnathon Robert Madden (11 May 1991 – 25 November 2003) was a 12-year-old Canadian boy whose gruesome murder at the hands of his 16-year-old brother Kevin Madden and his brother's friend Timothy Ferriman provoked widespread revulsion and outrage in Johnathon's home city of Toronto and across Canada.
The ensuing trials of Madden and Ferriman have created a media sensation in Toronto and in the Canadian English media generally, which intensified after the first trial ended in a mistrial when a key witness was discovered to have committed perjury.
Madden and Ferriman were convicted, respectively, of first-degree murder and manslaughter in early 2006, but until September 29, 2006, when Justice David McCombs elected to sentence the youths as adults, the names of the principals in the case were precluded from publication by provisions of Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act.
