Sentencing hearing expected nowadays for Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard


TORONTO — A sentencing hearing is scheduled now for Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, who was located responsible earlier this calendar year of a sexual assault on an Ottawa woman.

A jury located the Hedley frontman responsible of sexual assault leading to bodily hurt in the 2016 incident, which took place in a Toronto resort area.

But jurors uncovered him not guilty of the identical offence towards a teenage enthusiast.

Hoggard, 38, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily hurt – one particular relevant to each complainant – and 1 rely of sexual interference, a cost that refers to the sexual touching of an individual less than 16.

Through the trial, Crown prosecutors alleged Hoggard regularly and violently raped the two complainants in different incidents in the tumble of 2016. They also alleged he groped the teen soon after a Hedley concert in April 2016, when she was 15.

The defence argued that the groping never transpired, and that Hoggard had consensual intercourse with each individual of the complainants.

This report by The Canadian Push was initially published Oct. 6, 2022.

The Canadian Press


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