World junior trial will generate ‘big conversations’ for years as closing submissions begin

A Crown attorney asserted in closing submissions on Wednesday that Michael McLeod repeatedly lied to police about what happened on the night that he and four of his former world junior hockey teammates allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in a London, Ont., hotel. The woman, known as E.M., because her name is protected by a publication ban, met Mr. McLeod at a London bar following a Hockey Canada gala to celebrate the team in June, 2018, and the two went back to his hotel room and had consensual sex.