Hockey Canada sexual assault trial will be decided Thursday

24-Jul-2025

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Justice Maria Carroccia will deliver her decisions in the world junior hockey sexual assault trial on July 24 — a case that dates back to 2018 and has manoeuvred numerous curves as it played out over eight weeks in a London, Ont., court.

Five former players are charged with sexually assaulting a woman, known as E.M. due to a standard publication ban, in a hotel room in June 2018 while the team was in the southwestern Ontario city to celebrate their world championship win months earlier.

Cal Foote, Dillon Dubé, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod have all pleaded not guilty. McLeod faces an additional charge of being party to an offence for his alleged role in facilitating the assaults. The sexual assault charges carry a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.