WARNING: This article refers to sexual aggression and can affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by him.
A former World Hockey Junior player was in the witness box for the first time in the sexual aggression trial of five teammates of the 2018 championship team, which told the court of London, Ontario, on the exchanges of text messages from the players and a call he received from a Canada Hockey Executive on an investigation.
Taylor Raddysh, now a striker with the Washington capitals, struck remotely on Wednesday from Arlington, Virginia, hours before his playoff game against the Montreal Canadiens.
The trial is listening to the case against Michael McLeod, Dillon Dubé, Carter Hart, Cal Fote and Alex Formenton, who have had NHL races. The five declared themselves innocent of a position of sexual assault. McLeod also declared himself innocent of a charge of being part of the crime.
Raddysh’s testimony ended early and is expected to resume today as CBC continues its live coverage.
According to the meaghan cunningham crown lawyer, Raddysh talked about how the Junior world team felt.
“When I was a child, you really want to be part of that team,” he said.
The captain of the World Junior team, Dubé, had the task of being a leader “inside and outside the ice,” said Raddysh, a role that required him to “lead with the example.”
Surveillance video shows players, EM in the bar
Raddysh was the second witness on Wednesday, after the London Det Police. Tiffany Waque, who showed videos of the group of men dancing together and with them, the plaintiff in the case whose identity is protected by a prohibition of publication.
In a moment of the surveillance video taken in early June 19, 2018, in Jack’s Bar, Dubé is seen taking off his shirt. In another, he picks them up while she smells on the dance floor.
EM is seen to have their horse tail thrown by one of the players on the dance floor and their slapped buttocks. She dances with McLeod and others.
In one of the videos taken at the MCLEOD bar wearing their phone at 1:21 that morning, the players are dancing and singing to Hello darling By dj Ötzi. The song played every time a goal was scored during the World Hockey 2018 Hockey Tournament that the Canadian team won months before, they told the jury.
Jury see group chat, videos at the hotel
Justice Maria Carroccia, which supervises the case, warned the jury that they cannot draw conclusions when seeing Em Bess McLeod or having other “physical interactions” with the players.
The law restricts how previous sexual behavior can be used by a jury, body told them.
She said that jury members can use their actions on the dance floor to help evaluate EM’s mental state as the night progressed, and their level of intoxication and credibility, but they cannot use what he did on the dance floor to determine whether men are guilty or not guilty.
“You cannot think that, due to the sexual nature of what happened in Jack, that it is more likely to have consented to sexual activity or that EM is less worthy of belief,” said body. Inferences like that are based on myths that cannot be considered by the jury, he added.
The jury was also shown lobby surveillance videos of the Delta Armories hotel, with groups of players who reach different points in the early hours of June 19.
Someone suggests to go to a Striptease club, then, some time later, McLeod sends a text message to the group of the group, asking: “Who wants to be in a fast,” signed “(room) 209- Mikey.”
Someone who uses Hart’s phone reply: “I am inside.”
Eleven players are in the group chat, they were told: Hart, Foot, Dubé, McLeod, Formenton, Jake Bean, Maxime Comois, Drake Batherson, Tyler Steenbergen, Brett Howden and Sam Steel.
A little later, Raddysh receives a group message from McLeod, asking if he wants to come to McLeod’s room for oral sex. Raddysh does not respond.
The jury also saw two videos of the MCLEOD phone that were taken at the end of the night.
In the first, the 3:25 am, em, dress and can be heard that he is asked if he is “well with all this”, and she replies: “Yes, I’m fine.”
In the second video, at 4:26 am, EM, without clothes, holds a towel in front of his chest.
She says: “Everything was consensual.
‘I called my father’
Raddysh testified that he didn’t remember much of that night. He arrived at Jack’s house, and went to his hotel room and faced his girlfriend. His roommate, Howden, woke him up at some time in the middle of the night, but did not remember when.
Raddysh said several times: “While I feel here today, I don’t remember,” when the crown has asked me questions, I even have no memory that McLeod and another player, Boris Katcheuk, came to his room and ask him to get the time.
Raddysh remembered a woman in the room, but not what he was wearing or what he was doing, he testified.
He recalled having received the call from the Hockey Canada Executive, Shawn Bullock, approximately one week after the night in question, telling him that an investigation was being launched.
“I called my father,” Raddysh said.
He also testified that he transmitted that information to a teammate.
“Bully just called me,” he sent a text message to McLeod on June 28, 2018. “He said there is an investigation.”
Raddysh’s testimony ended just before 4 pm et because he had “a commitment,” body told the jury.
Eight weeks have been reserved for the trial. CBC live coverage is expected to start before 10 am et.
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