London, Ont.– A lawyer for one of the five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team suggested Friday that the complainant’s accounts to London police and Hockey Canada of what happened at a downtown London bar the night of the alleged sexual assaults contained a number of inaccuracies.

During continuing cross-examination of E.M., whose identity is protected by a publication ban, Daniel Brown, who is Alex Formenton’s lawyer, alternated between showing E.M. video clips of Jack’s bar the night of June 18, 2018, and copies of her statements to police days later and to Hockey Canada as part of a separate investigation in 2022.

Using the videos and statements to attack E.M.’s credibility and the reliability of her testimony, Brown explained to the court the chronology of what was seen on the video clips was different from what she said to investigators.

Brown is the third lawyer to cross-examine E.M. Lawyers for Dillon Dube and Callan Foote will still have opportunities to do so.

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Formenton, Dube, and Foote have been charged with sexually assaulting E.M. during the early morning hours of June 19, 2018, in McLeod’s hotel room at the Delta Armouries hotel. McLeod faces a second charge of party to the offence. The players have all pleaded not guilty.

The jury has seen a text message that McLeod sent to his world junior teammates after he and E.M. had consensual sex that said, “Who wants to be in a 3 way quick. 209-Mikey”.

At one point on Friday, Brown pointed out that in E.M.’s statements to police and to Hockey Canada she wrote........

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