A lawyer for one of the five former world junior hockey players being tried for sexual assault took aim at Hockey Canada, London police
The lawyers representing five hockey players on trial for sexual assault called their accuser’s evidence “an exercise in fact-finding frustration.”
The now infamous doula-duper, Kaitlyn Braun, 26, was given the sentence she asked for after pleading guilty four months ago: she’ll serve the rest of a conditional sentence in jail and then be sent to prison for a three-year term. “The waiting has been difficult,” said Braun’s lawyer Alison MacDonald. “She just wants to be […]
It started, Michael McLeod’s defence lawyer said, with “a white lie.” It’s ended up in a London courtroom where five 2018 Team Canada junior hockey players are on trial over sexual assault allegations that David Humphrey called “preposterous.” Humphrey, the first of the five defence legal teams to give a closing argument, described the 27‑year‑old […]
Testimony has finished in the trial of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team accused of sexually assaulting a woman
A Free Press reader says there is no sense of priority at any level of Canadian governments.
Carter Hart said he believes if anyone had been offside with the woman in Canadian world junior hockey teammate Michael McLeod’s hotel room, he would have said something, done something or simply left.
Trial of five players from Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team, charged with sexual assault, continues on Thursday
Salacious details can harm the dignity of victims and witnesses, as well as defendants who are later acquitted.
Ontario’s police watchdog has closed its investigation into a collision involving a cruiser and a snowplow that injured two snowmobilers north of Wingham three months ago. Ontario Provincial Police in Huron County shut down the southbound lanes of London Road during a winter storm on Feb. 17. An officer had pulled over and activated the […]
Brett Howden doesn’t have a clear memory of what happened in Room 209 of the Delta Armouries hotel in London, but remembered “just feeling uncomfortable.” The Vegas Golden Knights player, who began his testimony on Tuesday, was in Michael McLeod’s hotel room with teammates on June 19, 2018, where a woman says she was sexually […]
