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LONDON, ONT. – Brett Howden, a member of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team, testified Tuesday at the trial of five of his former teammates, telling the court he remembered Dillon Dube and Callan Foote both phoning him in June of 2018 and asking him not to tell a Hockey Canada investigator what he had seen them do in a London hotel room in the early morning hours of June 19, 2018.

Dube, Foote, Michael McLeod, Carter Hart and Alex Formenton, are charged with sexually assaulting a woman referred to in court documents as E.M. McLeod faces a second charge of being a party to the act. The players have all pleaded not guilty.

E.M. has alleged that after dancing and drinking with McLeod and a number of his Team Canada teammates at Jack’s bar on June 18, 2018, she went willingly with McLeod to his hotel room and had consensual sex.

E.M. has alleged that after they finished having sex, a number of other men began showing up at the hotel room and that she was then sexually assaulted for several hours, taking on a “porn star persona” to get out of the room safely.

Dube has been accused of slapping E.M. on the buttocks, and Foote has been accused of doing the splits naked over top of her, grazing his genitals over her face.

Howden testified Tuesday that both Dube and Foote phoned him in the days after the alleged incident.

“I don’t remember the conversation [with Dube],” Howden testified. “I just remember being asked to leave his name out of things.”

“Who called who?” Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham asked.

“I don’t remember,” Howden answered.

“Tell us all the things you remember Dube telling you during that phone call,” Cunningham said.

“I honestly don’t remember our conversation on the phone,” Howden answered, adding that he had a similar conversation, the details of which he also does not remember, with Foote.

Tyler Steenbergen previously testified that Dube and Foote both also phoned him and asked him to not tell Hockey Canada investigators what he saw them do in the hotel room.

The 27-year-old Howden, who plays for the Vegas Golden Knights, testified remotely from Las Vegas. He has not been accused of any........

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