{"id":135801,"date":"2025-05-01T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/nhl-player-continues-testimony-today-at-sex-assault-trial-of-ex-world-junior-teammates-in-london-ont-radio-canada\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:46:11","slug":"nhl-player-continues-testimony-today-at-sex-assault-trial-of-ex-world-junior-teammates-in-london-ont-radio-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/nhl-player-continues-testimony-today-at-sex-assault-trial-of-ex-world-junior-teammates-in-london-ont-radio-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL player continues testimony today at sex assault trial of ex-world junior teammates in London, Ont. – Radio-Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dillon Dub\u00e9, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod were all once teammates on Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team. They’re currently on trial in London, Ont., accused of sexual assault. All have pleaded not guilty. (Nicole Osborne\/CP, Nicole Osborne\/CP, Nicole Osborne\/CP, Brett Gundlock\/Reuters, Nicole Osborne\/CP)
Photo:\u00a0La Presse canadienne \/ Nicole Osborne
Washington forward Taylor Raddysh spoke via video about Hockey Canada exec’s call.
WARNING: This article references sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced\u200b \u200b\u200b\u200bsexual violence or know someone affected by it.<\/em><\/strong>
A former world junior hockey player was in the witness box\u00a0for the first time at the sexual assault trial of five teammates from the 2018 championship team, telling the\u00a0London, Ont., court\u00a0about players’ text exchanges and a call he received from a\u00a0Hockey Canada executive about an investigation.
Taylor Raddysh, now a forward with the Washington Capitals,\u00a0testified remotely Wednesday from Arlington, Va., hours before their playoff game against the Montreal Canadiens.
The trial is hearing the case against\u00a0Michael McLeod, Dillon Dub\u00e9, Carter Hart, Cal Foote and Alex Formenton, who’ve all had NHL careers. The five have pleaded not guilty to one count each of sexual assault.\u00a0McLeod has also\u00a0pleaded not guilty to a charge of being party to the offence.
Raddysh’s testimony ended early and is expected to resume today as CBC continues its\u00a0live coverage\u00a0(new window)<\/span><\/a>.
Under examination by Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham,\u00a0Raddysh\u00a0spoke about how he felt making\u00a0the world junior squad.\u00a0
As a kid, you really want to be part of that team,<\/span><\/q> he said.
The world junior team’s captain, Dub\u00e9, was tasked with being a leader on and off the ice,<\/span><\/q> Raddysh said, a role requiring him to\u00a0lead by example.<\/span><\/q>\u00a0
Raddysh was the second witness Wednesday, after London police Det. Tiffany Waque, who showed videos of the group of men dancing together and with E.M., the complainant in the case whose identity is protected by a publication ban.
At one point in the surveillance video taken early\u00a0into June 19, 2018, at Jack’s bar, Dub\u00e9\u00a0is seen taking off his shirt. In another, he picks up E.M. as she straddles him on the dance floor.\u00a0
E.M. is seen having her ponytail pulled by one of the players on the dance floor\u00a0and her buttocks\u00a0slapped. She dances with McLeod and others.\u00a0
In one of the videos taken at the bar by McLeod\u00a0using his phone\u00a0at 1:21 that morning,\u00a0the players are dancing and singing to\u00a0Hey Baby<\/em>\u00a0by DJ \u00d6tzi. The\u00a0song\u00a0was played whenever a\u00a0goal was scored during the 2018 world junior hockey tournament the Canadian team won months earlier, the jury was told.\u00a0
Justice Maria Carroccia, who’s\u00a0overseeing the case, cautioned jurors they can’t draw conclusions from seeing\u00a0E.M. kiss McLeod or having other physical interactions<\/span><\/q> with players.
The law restricts how prior sexual conduct can be used by a jury, Carroccia\u00a0told them.
She said jurors can use her actions in the dance floor\u00a0to help assess E.M.’s state of mind as the evening progressed, and her level of intoxication and her credibility, but they can’t use what she did on the dance floor to determine whether the men are guilty or not guilty.
You can’t think that because of the sexual nature of what happened at Jack’s that she is more likely to have consented to the sexual activity or that E.M. is less worthy of belief,<\/span><\/q> Carroccia said.\u00a0Inferences like that are based on myths that can’t be considered by the jury, she added.\u00a0
The jury was also shown surveillance videos from the lobby of the Delta Armouries hotel’s bar, with groups of players arriving at different points in the early hours of June 19.\u00a0
Someone suggests going to a strip club,\u00a0then some time later, McLeod texts the team group chat, asking, Who wants to be in a 3-way quick,<\/span><\/q> signed (room) 209- mikey.<\/span><\/q>
Someone using Hart’s phone replies, I’m in.<\/span><\/q>
Eleven players are\u00a0in the group chat, court was told:\u00a0Hart, Foote, Dub\u00e9, McLeod, Formenton, Jake Bean,\u00a0Maxime Comtois, Drake\u00a0Batherson, Tyler\u00a0Steenbergen, Brett Howden and Sam Steel.
A little later, Raddysh\u00a0receives\u00a0a group message from McLeod, asking him if wants to come to McLeod’s room for oral sex. Raddysh doesn’t reply.\u00a0
The jury also saw two videos from McLeod’s phone that were taken at the end of the night.
In the first, timestamped 3:25 a.m., E.M. is clothed and could\u00a0be heard being asked if she is OK\u00a0with all this stuff,<\/span><\/q> and she responds, Yeah, I’m OK.<\/span><\/q>
In the second video, at 4:26 a.m., E.M., wearing no clothing, is\u00a0holding a towel in front of her chest.
She says, It was all consensual. Are you recording me? K, good. You are so paranoid. Holy. I enjoyed it. It was fine. I’m so sober \u2014 that’s why I can’t do this right now.<\/span><\/q>
Raddysh testified he didn’t\u00a0remember much from that night. He came home from Jack’s,\u00a0and went to his hotel room and Facetimed with his girlfriend. His roommate, Howden, woke him up at some point in the middle of the night, but he didn’t remember when.
Raddysh said several times, As I sit here today, I don’t recall,<\/span><\/q> when asked questions by the Crown, including having no memory of being asked by McLeod and another player, Boris Katchouk, coming to his room and asking him to hang out.
Raddysh recalled a woman in the room but not what she was wearing or what she was doing, he testified.\u00a0
He did remember getting the\u00a0call from Hockey Canada executive Shawn Bullock about a week after the night in question,\u00a0telling him an investigation was being launched.
I called my father,<\/span><\/q> Raddysh said.
He also testified he passed on that information to a teammate.\u00a0
Bully just called me,<\/span><\/q> Raddysh texted McLeod on June 28, 2018. Said there’s an investigation.<\/span><\/q>
Raddysh’s testimony ended just before 4 p.m. ET because he had a commitment,<\/span><\/q> Carroccia told the jury.\u00a0
Eight weeks have been set aside for the trial.\u00a0CBC’s live coverage today is expected to start before\u00a010 a.m. ET.
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