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LONDON, ONT. – Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham challenged Carter Hart Friday on the numerous gaps in his memory relating to an alleged sexual assault in a downtown London hotel room on June 19, 2018, asking how he could be certain everything that happened in the room was consensual if he couldn’t recall so many moments from the evening.

“You spent more time in that room doing things for which you have no memory than doing things for which you have a memory,” Cunningham suggested.

“I’m not sure,” Hart answered.

Hart, who was the first of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team to testify in their sexual assault trial, maintained he was certain that all of the sexual activity in the hotel room seven years ago was consensual.

“You know for sure you never felt like things were getting out of hand in that room?” Cunningham asked.

“Yes,” Hart answered.

“Even though you can remember less than half of what took place in the room?” Cunningham asked.

“Yes,” Hart answered.

Hart, Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube, Alex Formenton and Callan Foote are charged with sexually assaulting a woman in McLeod’s hotel room in the early morning hours of June 19, 2018. The woman is referred to as E.M. in court documents and her identity is protected by a publication ban. McLeod faces a second charge of party to the act. The players have all pleaded not guilty.

Hart’s testimony came after McLeod declined the opportunity to testify in his defence.

Hart acknowledged on Friday that he was intoxicated and has significant memory gaps about the evening of June 18 and early morning of June 19, 2018.

He testified that he didn’t remember all of the players who were in McLeod’s hotel room, that he couldn’t recall whether E.M. got dressed and then undressed during the evening, that he didn’t know if he spoke to E.M. when he entered the room, that he didn't remember if he was egging on other players to have sex with E.M., and that he didn’t remember how players were reacting to E.M. when she was engaged in sexual acts with some of their teammates.

A day after he testified that he “locked eyes” with one of his teammates when he was receiving oral sex, Hart also said he........

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