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Detective being cross-examined at sexual assault trial for 5 ex-world junior hockey players — Sex assault trial of 5 ex-junior hockey players begins McLeod’s and Foote’s lawyers don’t have any questions for the detective, but Dan Brown, lawyer ...

Sex assault trial of 5 ex-junior hockey players begins

McLeod’s and Foote’s lawyers don’t have any questions for the detective, but Dan Brown, lawyer for Formenton, does.

Brown starts off noting that Formenton was 18 years old on June 18, 2018, and did not get into Jack’s because he wasn’t of legal drinking age.

Brown also has some questions about the surveillance cameras at Jack’s and how the footage was collected. When investigators first collected it, the footage played back at faster speed than normal.

For the first time, we’ll be seeing what kind of questions the defence lawyers will ask of the witness, the London police detective.

I’ve had some questions about this from the public, so here’s a list of the defence lawyers and who they represent:

The jury is told by the Crown they’ll later see texts between E.M. and McLeod that were sent on June 20 and 21, 2018.

They’ll also see a group chat between some members of the world junior team on June 26, 2018. They were provided to police by Batherson and Steenbergen.

Eleven players are in the group chat, court was told. They are: Hart, Foote, Dubé, McLeod, Formenton, Bean, Comtois, Batherson, Steenbergen, Howden and Steel.

That’s it for Waque’s testimony

Court is now taking a short break.

At the end of the night, McLeod recorded two videos that featured E.M.

In the first, taken at 3:25 a.m., she is dressed. Off camera, a male voice says, “You’re OK with this, right? You’re OK with this?” and she says, ‘Yeah, I’m OK.”

In the second video, at 4:26 a.m., she isn’t wearing any clothes and is holding a towel in front of her body. “This was all consensual. I enjoyed it. Are you filming this?” E.M. says. "You are so paranoid. I’m so sober — that’s why I can’t do this right now."

At 4:47 a.m., we see footage from the Delta lobby, of E.M. leaving. An Uber receipt shows she arrived home at 5:08 a.m.

Court is being shown surveillance footage from the Delta lobby, of groups of players arriving at the hotel at the end of the night.

The videos are time stamped in the early hours of June 18, 2018, between 2 a.m. and 3:15 a.m. Just after 3 a.m., we see McLeod picking up what looks like a food delivery in the lobby.

Court also saw a text of a group chat among the players, which the jury heard about in the opening statements. Then someone suggests “rippers anyone?” and a little while later that text from McLeod the Crown spoke about, which says, “Who wants to be in a 3 way quick” and is signed “209- mikey.”

Someone using Carter Hart’s phone replies, “I’m in.”

At 3:14, a bunch more players arrive in the lobby. Dubé comes in from outside, without a shirt on, with others.

After a lengthy black-and-white video of the players dancing as a group and with E.M., the jury sees footage of McLeod and E.M. leaving Jack’s bar together between 1:20 and 1:40 a.m.

At around 1:45 a.m., the two are seen on a lobby camera walking into the Delta hotel.

The court is being shown more video of dancing and singing, and general revelry at Jack’s bar.

One video taken at 1:17 a.m. by McLeod in selfie-mode shows him singingHotel Room Serviceby Pitbull. E.M. is dancing near him and Foote is also in the frame, as is Colton Point, another member of the team who went on to an NHL career.

In another video, taken on Drake Batherson’s phone in selfie mode, Batherson, Foote, Howden and Maxime Comtois sing, “Hey, hey baby, will you be my girl?”

The music also appears in several videos from McLeod’s phone, with everyone happily singing along at 1:21 a.m.

Also in the videos E.M. is seen, as are world junior teammates Point, Boris Katchouk, Sam Steel (now with the Dallas Stars) and Tyler Steenbergen.

Now testifying is London police Det. Tiffany Waque, who’s leading the court through video evidence.

On the screen is a black-and-white video of a crowded dance floor at Jack’s bar in the early hours of June 19, 2018.

There’s a strobe-light effect, so it’s kind of hard to make out the faces, but Waque identifies Michael McLeod as well as E.M. as a couple of people in the video. They appear to be dancing together. He is quite a bit taller than her.

We’ve previously heard the video was taken by surveillance cameras at Jack’s between 1 a.m. and 1:20 a.m.

The temperature in the courtroom is significantly cooler today, so court officials hope there won’t be the same problems with overheating technology as there were yesterday that led to the early end to the day.

A reader reached out to ask if the public is allowed in the court to watch the proceedings, or is it restricted to media.

The answer is yes, the public is allowed (although it’s very crowded with family members also there).

Members of the public can also sit in the overflow room to watch the proceedings.

We are hearing a lot of names in court of hockey players who were part of Team Canada in the 2018 IIHF world junior championship but who are not charged in this case.

London police Det. Tiffany Waque has identified some of them in surveillance videos from Jack’s bar, as well as videos taken from a player’s phone.

Here’s where they are now:

Some of these players are expected to testify during the trial.

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