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Closing submissions in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team will begin next week, after London Police Service detective Lyndsey Ryan testified Monday about being assigned to review her department’s initial investigation of the incident.

The five defence teams will begin making their closing arguments on Monday, June 9. The Crown will then make its arguments before the defence has an opportunity to respond to the Crown. The closing arguments are expected to take a week.

The judge is not expected to immediately announce verdicts, lawyers involved in the case told TSN afterwards. It could take weeks or months before the judge finishes writing her reasons for her judgments. At that point, the defendants will be notified to return to court for the judge to read her verdicts.

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, 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, following a Hockey Canada ring ceremony to celebrate their 2018 world junior championship months earlier. 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 being a party to the act.

E.M. testified that players were........

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