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WARNING: This article references sexual assault and contains graphic details, and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone impacted by it.

After five days under cross-examination, the complainant in the sexual assault trial for five former world junior hockey players will continue to be grilled by their defence lawyers today in London, Ont. 

Before court adjourned Friday, one of the men’s lawyers showed the woman text messages she says she didn’t remember sending to a friend the night she went to a London hotel with one of the players and the following morning in June 2018.

The trial began the last week of April. The complainant’s known in court as E.M. as her identity is under a publication ban that’s standard in sexual assault cases. She’s been testifying from another room via closed-circuit television (CCTV) shown on a big screen in the main courtroom. 

Michael McLeod, Dillon Dubé, Carter …

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