Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard took the stand in his sexual assault trial on Tuesday, denying that he raped his accuser and painting a dramatically different picture of their encounter eight years ago.
Wearing a dark suit, Hoggard told a jury that he and the complainant in the case had a consensual one-night stand in Kirkland Lake, Ont., after his then-band Hedley performed a show.
As defence lawyer Megan Savard took him through his recollections of the encounter, she asked whether it had been consensual.
“Of course it was,” he said.
She asked what about the sex allows Hoggard to now say so confidently that it was consensual.
“Well, she was as into it as I was,” he said, adding that the complainant was positioned on top of him for “quite a bit” of the session.
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“I remember her moaning and saying yes and a lot of kissing while she was on top of me.”
The complainant, …