The former frontman for Hedley has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault following his Kirkland Lake concert in 2016

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At his sexual assault trial, she used the same precise words each time when describing how Jacob Hoggard invited her to his Kirkland Lake hotel room following the all-night bonfire afterparty in June 2016.

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Frail and tremulous on the witness stand, she testified that after drinking five to eight beers provided by the band, the former Hedley frontman told her that they’d go to his room to play music and have some casual conversation – and that it was not a sexual invitation at all.

But Hoggard’s lawyer Megan Savard accused her of concocting an innocuous invitation to cover for what she knew was a a straight up sexual proposition.

“It’s made up,” Savard charged. “You don’t actually remember the wording that Jake used to invite you to his........

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