Don't believe players' cooked-up, ‘parroted' story, Crown says in closing arguments at Hockey Canada trial
LONDON, Ont.—In making her final pitch for convictions at the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial, a Crown attorney repeated the same words the prosecution used in its opening statement nearly eight weeks ago: 'This case may not look the way one anticipates a sexual assault to look.'
The central issue in the case is whether the complainant, whose identity is covered by a standard publication ban, consented to sexual activity with Alex Formenton, Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Dillon Dubé and Cal Foote, all members of the 2018 Canadian world junior championship team, in a room at the Delta Armouries hotel in the early hours of June 19, 2018, when she was 20 years old.
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