Content advisory: This article includes allegations of sexual assault.

London, Ont. – A jury deciding the fate of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team charged with sexual assault watched a series of surveillance videos Monday that show E.M., the complainant in the case, arriving at a London bar around 11 p.m. on June 18, 2018, moving between an ATM, a bar where she appears to order drinks, and then a crowded dance floor.

The videos were part of the first testimony heard by the jury of nine women and five men in Ontario Superior Court in London in the case against Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, and Callan Foote.

The players are charged with sexually assaulting a woman who is identified in court documents as E.M. in June 2018 at a London hotel following a Hockey Canada golf and gala event. McLeod faces a second sexual assault charge as a party to the offence.

The players have all pleaded not guilty. If they are convicted, they face as many as 10 years in prison.

The videos, which do not have sound, also show members of the world junior team arriving at Jack’s Bar at about the same time as E.M. The players, many of whom wear T-shirts and backward baseball hats, have their I.D.’s checked before walking into the establishment.

London police officer Tiffany Waque testified that the series of videos and photos were obtained by police in connection with their investigation into the incident. The photos included an image of current Ottawa Senators player Drake Batherson wearing his 2018 world junior championship ring, and a drawing of the layout of Jack’s Bar.

Court finished on Monday afternoon at around 1 p.m. Justice Maria Carroccia told the jury she was ending early so jurors could vote in the federal election. Waque is scheduled to continue her testimony on Tuesday morning.

In the government’s opening statement earlier on Monday, assistant Crown attorney Heather Donkers described an hours-long alleged sexual assault that began early in the morning of June 19, 2018, with a text message sent by McLeod to his Team Canada teammates asking if anyone was interested in participating in a “3 way.”

Donkers told the jury on Monday that the case against the five........

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