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E.M., the complainant in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team, finished having consensual sex with Michael McLeod and then asked him to text his teammates and invite them to come and have a “wild night” with her, a defence lawyer suggested on Tuesday.

During cross-examination, Michael McLeod’s lawyer, David Humphrey, challenged E.M.’s version of events on June 18, 2018, the night of the alleged sexual assault.

“I suggest that at that point you didn’t want to go home,” Humphrey said. “You wanted this party evening to continue and for some of the players to come back to the room.”

“No, I wouldn’t have done that. I would have wanted to go home,” E.M. answered.

“I suggest you said something like, ‘Get some of those guys back here. I want to have a wild night,’” Humphrey said.

“That doesn’t sound like something I would say and I don’t remember saying those words,” E.M. answered.

McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote are charged with sexually assaulting E.M., whose identity is protected by a publication ban.

E.M., who is now 27, was 20 at the time of the alleged sexual assault at the Delta Armouries hotel in London. McLeod faces a second charge of party to the offence. If they are convicted, the players face up to 10 years in prison. They have all pleaded not guilty.

Humphrey is the first defence lawyer to cross examine E.M. Lawyers for the other four charged players will also have the opportunity to cross examine........

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