Complainant in Jacob Hoggard trial appeared in ache after alleged intercourse assault: good friend

Warning: This story comprises particulars some readers could discover disturbing. Please learn at your individual discretion.

An Ottawa lady who alleges she was violently raped by Jacob Hoggard appeared “distraught” and never like herself after going to satisfy the singer in Toronto, her buddies testified Friday.

Three buddies of the complainant, together with siblings who had been her roommates on the time, had been requested to explain the lady’s manner after the Nov. 22, 2016, encounter.

Her shut good friend recalled that the complainant known as her from a Tim Hortons whereas she was nonetheless in Toronto and laid out what had occurred, sounding “fairly distraught, very upset.”

The good friend went over to the complainant’s dwelling the subsequent day and was greatly surprised when she first noticed her, she stated.

“It was very unhealthy,” the good friend stated, crying on the stand. “I didn’t acknowledge the particular person … She was very completely different than when she had left. It was laborious to see.”

The complainant’s feminine roommate, who joined them that night, stated she additionally instantly realized “one thing was not proper.” The complainant was “distraught, not herself,” she stated.

“Her manner was utterly off, it seemed like she had been crying … she seemed bodily unwell” and will barely sit down, the roommate stated.

Each girls stated the complainant was limping and gave the impression to be in ache. The roommate additionally noticed important bruising on the complainant’s pelvic area and legs, she instructed the courtroom.

In the meantime, the complainant’s male roommate testified he overheard the three girls speaking that evening and “might hear crying.” However he didn’t communicate to the complainant till just a few days later, he stated. She appeared calm at first however grew distraught as she spoke, he stated, including there was “heavy crying.”

Within the days and weeks that adopted, the complainant cried in mattress “very often,” which was not a traditional incidence earlier than then, he stated.

Prosecutors allege Hoggard, the frontman for the band Hedley, violently raped two girls in separate encounters within the fall of 2016. Neither of the complainants may be recognized underneath a publication ban, nor can their buddies and family.

Hoggard has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt and considered one of sexual interference, a cost that refers back to the sexual touching of an individual underneath 16.

Trending Tales

• Passenger with no flying expertise lands airplane after pilot turns into incapacitated

• Mother and father sue son for not giving them a grandchild, declare ‘psychological harassment’

An agreed assertion of info says Hoggard had a sexual encounter with every complainant on separate events within the fall of 2016.

Throughout cross-examination Friday, defence legal professionals prompt the shut good friend hadn’t noticed any accidents to the complainant and was merely repeating what the complainant had instructed her about being in ache.

In addition they famous that in her assertion to police, the good friend stated the complainant appeared confused and embarrassed within the preliminary name from Tim Hortons, and appeared to have “blended feelings.”

“She knew one thing flawed had occurred,” the good friend stated.

Earlier Friday, Ontario Superior Courtroom Justice Gillian Roberts acknowledged the Ottawa complainant had, earlier this week, been mistakenly cross-examined on a video clip from a CBC interview that was not, in actual fact, of her. She instructed jurors to disregard the proof associated to that clip, which concerned feedback about recovering from surgical procedure.

The defence additionally completed its questioning of the Ottawa complainant on Friday, urgent her on messages she exchanged with Hoggard earlier than and after their encounter at a lodge.

The 2 of them mentioned a number of the issues they deliberate to do on the lodge within the lead-up to the encounter, defence lawyer Megan Savard prompt, and the complainant agreed. The complainant additionally agreed it was a “purely sexual, nearly transactional dialog,” and that she noticed her relationship with Hoggard as one thing extra akin to a one-night stand than a budding romance.

In texts exchanged after the encounter, the defence prompt the lady instructed Hoggard she felt he had “crossed a line” and made her “uncomfortable,” but additionally that she “is likely to be overreacting.” In one other message, the defence prompt, the lady thanked Hoggard for responding. The complainant stated that was potential.

Beneath re-examination from the Crown, the complainant stated she texted Hoggard he had made her uncomfortable as a result of he had raped her. She instructed the courtroom she minimized the scenario within the different messages, as a result of she typically would “make gentle” of adverse conditions so as to transfer on.

These texts didn’t replicate her true emotions, she stated, including she regrets sending them.

The complainant additionally defined why she didn’t depart the lodge when Hoggard was within the bathe _ one thing she was questioned on by the defence earlier this week.

She stated she was too “terrified” to go away in the course of the incident.

“It’s very troublesome to assume rationally, to make rational choices. If I might return I’d’ve known as somebody,” she stated.

The complainant testified earlier this week that she got here throughout Hoggard on the courting app Tinder in November 2016 and, later that month, agreed to satisfy him in Toronto, the place they deliberate to have intercourse.

She stated as soon as she joined him at a lodge, Hoggard raped her anally, vaginally and orally, and at one level choked her laborious sufficient she thought she may die.

Defence legal professionals have prompt she was injured throughout consensual intercourse and made up rape allegations after Hoggard misplaced curiosity in her.

The opposite complainant, who was 16 on the time, has testified Hoggard raped her vaginally and orally, and tried to take action anally, in September 2016.