Rick Westhead
Senior Correspondent at The Sports Network (TSN)
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3 weeks ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault Closing submissions in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team will begin next week, after London Police Service detective Lyndsey Ryan testified Monday about being assigned to review her department’s initial investigation of the incident. The five defence teams will begin making their closing arguments on Monday, June 9.
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4 weeks ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
LONDON, ONT. – Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham challenged Carter Hart Friday on the numerous gaps in his memory relating to an alleged sexual assault in a downtown London hotel room on June 19, 2018, asking how he could be certain everything that happened in the room was consensual if he couldn’t recall so many moments from the evening. “You spent more time in that room doing things for which you have no memory than doing things for which you have a memory,” Cunningham suggested.
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4 weeks ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault LONDON, ONT. – Carter Hart testified Thursday morning that he asked E.M. for oral sex when he and his teammates were in Michael McLeod’s hotel room during the early morning hours of June 19, 2018, because he was intoxicated, excited and single. Hart, 26, began testifying in person in his own defence in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team.
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4 weeks ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault Carter Hart began testifying in his own defence on Thursday morning in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team. Hart’s testimony came after Michael McLeod declined the opportunity to testify in the case. Earlier on Thursday, Meaghan Cunningham advised Justice Maria Carroccia that the Crown had finished presenting its case.
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1 month ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault During separate interviews with a police investigator in late 2018, Alex Formenton and Dillon Dube shared their perspectives about what happened in a hotel room in London, Ont., the night of an alleged sexual assault in June 2018, saying that a number of their teammates stood and watched as E.M. engaged in sex acts with several different men.
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Michael McLeod lied to London police officer Stephen Newton in November 2018 when he said he had no clue why his former teammates kept showing up to his hotel room during the early-morning hours of June 19, 2018, Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham said on Wednesday. Cunningham:
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault. From @rwesthead - Crown says Michael McLeod lied to police about alleged incident in London hotel room: https://t.co/NT8HAFvj7s
Barrie Colts billet parent Ryan Wood was arrested on May 20 and has been charged with sexual assault. Colts co-owner Jim Payetta told TSN that Wood had been a billet parent for the OHL club over each of the past three seasons. Payette: “We have spoken to all players that have
A Barrie Colts billet parent was arrested on May 20 and has been charged with sexual assault. Story from @rwesthead: https://t.co/qkfm0KWo7J
Alex Formenton’s lawyer Daniel Brown accused E.M. of perjury during his closing statement. Brown: “She didn’t just get things wrong, she lied under oath… It should give your honour concerns that she has done this elsewhere.” Brown suggested E.M. consumed enough alcohol during
E.M., the complainant in the London hockey trial, was an unreliable witness who lied under oath and changed her story as new facts about the alleged sexual assault emerged, a defence lawyer asserted on Tuesday. Story from @rwesthead: https://t.co/Rw6tx21sVN