The former Hedley frontman has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a fan in a Kirkland Lake hotel in 2016

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She seemed to wither and shrink before our eyes.

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The young woman who has accused Jacob Hoggard of raping her eight years ago repeatedly collapsed into tears or had to take breaks as the singer’s defence lawyer methodically eviscerated her account of the encounter in his Kirkland Lake hotel room.

It’s just her soft-spoken word – a word so easily challenged after all these years.

Defence lawyer Megan Savard accused the woman of lying from start to finish – that this was just a romantic “sleepover” and not a sexual assault.

“You’ve been tinkering with the story to make it more believable. You’ve been dropping the parts of your story that you think make you look bad,” she charged in the Haileybury courtroom. “You care more about the jury believing you than telling the truth.”

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