World junior sex assault trial: Here’s what has happened in court so far
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The high-profile trial is entering its next phase, after the female complainant at the centre of the allegations finished more than a week of testimony.
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The high-profile world junior sexual assault trial is entering its next phase, after the female complainant at the centre of the allegations finished more than a week of testimony and cross-examination Wednesday.
Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have all pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault stemming from what the Crown alleges was non-consensual group sex in McLeod’s room at the Delta hotel in London, Ont., in 2018.
McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.
The 27-year-old woman, whose identity is protected under a standard publication ban and is known as E.M. in court documents, has testified virtually inside a London courtroom about what she says happened to her that night. The woman was 20 years old at the time of the alleged incident.
Here’s what has happened so far in the trial.
A first attempt at a trial began on April 23, when prosecutor Heather Donkers delivered her opening statement and laid out the Crown’s case against the five players.
However, the second day of the trial saw jurors dismissed early after Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia said an incident occurred during the lunch hour, and that she needed to discuss it with the lawyers.
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