Hockey players: “Everything was a joke for them,” said the alleged victim

Shortly afternoon Friday, E. M.-His identity was protected by a non-publication order-was questioned by the prosecutor about two videos filmed with the phone of Michael McLeod, one of the accused, in the early hours of June 19, 2018.

These videos had been presented for the first time (new window) In court last week, but were played a second time on Friday during the complainant’s testimony.

In the first, taken around 3:25 am on June 19, E. M. talks to an invisible interlocutor who asks him: You agree with that, right? Do you agree with that?

Yes, I agreeshe replies in the video.

I don’t think it reflected the way I feltsaid on Friday in his testimony.

This is a point where my mind is disconnected from my body and what I really do. I say what they want me to say and what they want to hear from me.

I don’t think I was able to think clearly, with so many men in the room, wanting me to say that. I always look really drunkshe says.

In the second video, taken around 4:26, E. M. appears standing, covered with a towel.

It is for the camera: Everything was consensual. I had fun. Do you save that? You are paranoid. I’m so sober, that’s why I can’t do this right now.

Friday, E. M. said he believed that this video was taken when it only remained and Mr. McLeod in the room after the departure of other men.

Watching the video and hearing him tell me to say it, he was trying to make me say that it was consensual on the cameraindicates E. M.

The crown had mentioned these two videos in its opening arguments, telling the jurors that consent had a specific legal definition which they should take into account in their assessment of the file.

Can you find a way to end this?

Em indicates that later in the evening, leaving Mr. McLeodshe called a friend.

I felt so much shame and I was embarrassedshe says.

Messages on Instagram presented in court show that Michael McLeod contacted her a few days later, asking her if she had spoken to the police.

I spoke to my mother who called me, I think, but I told her not to do it. I don’t want something to result in, so I told her to stopanswers Em by message.

You said you had funretorts Mr. McLeod.

E. M. replies that she was really drunk and that she did not feel at all long afterbut that she it is [voulait] disorder.

Can you, please find a way to end this and contact the police?continues Mr. McLeod, in the hope that the complaint process will be stopped.

In a cross-examination tight Friday afternoon, the latter’s lawyer, Me David Humphrey, notably questioned the alleged victim about his motivations by answering his messages, while she could simply have blocked it.

Me Humphrey also questioned E. M. about her first meetings with the London police service, when she filed a complaint a few days later.

The counter-examination is due to continue on Tuesday morning.

Everything was a joke for them

Earlier in his testimony, E. M. had indicated that it was after his consensual sex with Michael McLeod that the evening took a turning point that scary and left her vulnerable.

She said that after arriving at the hotel with hockey players, she had sex with the latter.

She claims that she then went to the bathroom to clean up and that when she returned, still naked, she saw Mr. McLeod send text messages.

Shortly after, two men entered the room, she says. I was really in shock. I didn’t expect it.

She testifies that these two men asked her to sleep on the ground, where there were golf sticks.

They spoke of putting golf sticks in me, in my vagina. They asked me if I could endure all the sticktells the complainant.

I felt vulnerable. I was afraid. I didn’t know where things went. I was frightened and confusedshe says.

Other men began to arrive in the room, says E. M. and began to claim blowjobs.

They started to lower their pants. I was lying on a bed sheet on the ground, then I kneel to do itshe explains.

I contained myself and I let my body do the right to be safe. It seemed to me that the only sure thing to do was to give them what they wanted

One of the men who had the paid pants made a big leg gap just above his face, says E. M.

I didn’t know what was going to happen and he put his penis on my face. […] It shocked me.

I found it disgusting, […] degrading. They laughed, they made fun of me. I felt like everything was a joke for themshe continues.

She adds that during the evening, she tried to get dressed to leave the room.

Whenever I did this, they came, said that we were having fun, convinced me, put their arms around me and brought me back to the sheet, EM

A meeting at the bar with hockey players

In the first part of her testimony on Friday, E. M. said that she had met the hockey players at the bar where she went on the evening of June 18, 2018. She said she consumed a lot of alcohol during the evening, at the end of which she felt herself drunken.

E. M. also said they had suffered Lots of annoying touching From men on the dance floor. She said she agreed to return to the hotel with Michael McLeod since [les deux] had been close all evening. The hockey player would have told him that he wanted have fun with [elle]a while ure

In the opening arguments delivered last week, the prosecutor Heather Donkers told the jurors that once at the hotel, E. M. and Michael McLeod would have had a consensual sex, but that The atmosphere of the room has changed When M. McLeod invited his teammates to come to his room if they wanted A sex to three quickly.

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Cal Foote, Dillon Dubé and Alex forgeon each face a chief of accusation of sexual assault in connection with the events that would have occurred in the hotel room that night.

Michael McLeod also faces a charge of participation in the offense.

They all pleaded not guilty at the start of the trial.