MANDEL: Accused rapist Jacob Hoggard admits mendacity in previous

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He barely squirmed.

Like a sailor with a woman in each port, former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard readily admitted to being a frequent liar who maintained a roster of lovers throughout the nation, telling them what they needed to listen to to get them in — after which out of — his mattress.

However he insisted he’s telling the reality in the case of denying that he raped two of these conquests in 2016.

As she wrapped up her pointed, if not gruelling, cross examination, Crown legal professional Kelly Slate recapped all of the instances the singer has admitted to mendacity — Hoggard instructed the primary complainant, simply 16 on the time, that he beloved her they usually had a future collectively — solely to realize her belief and seduce her.

The intention was to have intercourse, he agreed.

After their sexual encounter on the Thompson Resort, Hoggard instructed the second complainant, an Ottawa girl in her early 20s, that he had a gathering and she or he needed to go away. “That was a lie?” the prosecutor requested.

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“Sure,” he agreed.

When the girl later instructed him she wanted stitches from their sexual encounter and threatened to take her allegations to a lawyer, Hoggard taped their telephone name and instructed her he was very involved and actually cared about her.

“That wasn’t true,” Slate mentioned.

“No, it wasn’t,” he conceded.

Hoggard admitted mendacity once more in the course of the name when he instructed the Ottawa girl that his telephone was dying and he’d name her later — however as a substitute blocked her quantity. “You lied to get her off the telephone and mainly out of your life,” Slate charged.

“Uh, yeah,” he mentioned.

Hoggard additionally agreed he’d lied to girlfriends about his infidelity, used Snapchat so texts and sexual pictures and movies would get deleted and saved ladies in his telephone below male names.

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“You lied to (complainant one), you lied to (complainant two), you lied to your long-term girlfriends,” Slate recited.

“You anticipate this jury to consider that 16-year-old (complainant one) and (the Ottawa girl) consented to your sexual preferences throughout their very brief time with you?” the prosecutor demanded.

“Sure, after all,” Hoggard responded.

“Or are you saying now that they consented to get out of one other troublesome scenario?”

By no means shedding his cool, Hoggard mentioned he was solely telling the reality.

However Slate painted him as a well-known pop star who was used to getting his means — even when these two ladies instructed him no. “You didn’t care since you nonetheless go what you needed,” she charged.

“That’s not true,” he replied.

The married father of a 20-month-old son has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt and one rely of sexual interference associated to touching the behind of the primary accuser when she was 15.

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Through the trial, the ladies — their identities coated by a publication ban — gave tearful testimony alleging Hoggard violently raped them, spit of their mouths, slapped them and known as them degrading names whereas ignoring their cries and pleas to cease.

Hoggard has admitted to “uncommon” preferences, comparable to spit play, face “tapping and calling companions “sluts” and “whores.” And whereas he instructed the court docket he didn’t have a “full reminiscence” of the encounters, he maintained they have been consensual and passionate.

When the Ottawa girl confronted him together with her accusations, he mentioned he was shocked and after consulting with a lawyer buddy, he taped their name and screenshot their texts.

“I’d by no means been in a scenario like that and I felt like I had a goal on my again rapidly,” he defined, “and I simply needed to guard myself.”

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If his reminiscence was poor, requested his lawyer Megan Savard, how may he be so positive that all the things that occurred was consensual?

“I do know that I make certain the opposite particular person I’m having intercourse with is having fun with themselves and on high of that, I wouldn’t do one thing to trigger anyone ache to start with.”

The defence requested him in regards to the Crown’s accusation that he was now mendacity on the stand as he’s lied earlier than.

“To be sincere, I’ve lied prior to now to get myself out of uncomfortable conditions and cheated on my girlfriend and hoped she doesn’t discover out. I’m not happy with it,” Hoggard mentioned, “however that is positively a complete completely different ball sport.”

Closing arguments are anticipated to start Friday.

mmandel@postmedia.com