Content advisory: This article includes allegations of sexual assault

London, Ont. – Boris Katchouk, a former member of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team, testified Friday that after returning to the team hotel early on June 19, 2018, following a night of partying with his teammates, he visited Michael McLeod’s hotel room, where he saw a woman lying on a bed.

Katchouk testified that he spent no more than a few minutes in McLeod’s room, didn’t speak to the woman, and declined an offer from McLeod for oral sex from the woman.

Katchouk, who is not accused of wrongdoing, testified remotely from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Penn., where he played this season with the Pittsburgh Penguins’ American Hockey League affiliate.

Katchouk was the second member of Canada’s 2018 world junior team to testify in the sexual assault trial of Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, and Callan Foote.

The defendants are accused of sexually assaulting a woman referred to in court documents as E.M. in London’s Delta Armouries hotel. McLeod faces a second sexual assault charge of being party to the offence. The players have all pleaded not guilty.

Katchouk testified that he left a downtown bar where he was partying with his teammates and bought a slice of pizza before returning to the Delta Armouries hotel with Foote at 2:23 a.m. As he was walking to his room on the hotel’s second floor, Katchouk saw McLeod in the hallway and McLeod asked Katchouk to come into his room, Katchouk testified.

Katchouk testified that he obliged, and saw a woman lying on a bed when he entered, under the sheets.

“What’s going through your mind at the time?” Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham asked. “What are you thinking?”

“I was just having a normal conversation with Mikey,” Katchouk said. “There was nothing going through my head.”

Katchouk said that McLeod then asked if he wanted a “gummer,” which he explained was slang for oral sex.

“Just so that we’re clear, from your perspective, who did you think would be the one giving........

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