An Ottawa woman who alleges she was violently raped by Jacob Hoggard appeared “distraught” and not like herself after going to meet the singer in Toronto, her friends testified Friday.
Three friends of the complainant, including siblings who were her roommates at the time, were asked to describe the woman's demeanour after the Nov. 22, 2016, encounter.
The complainant's female roommate, who joined them that evening, said she also immediately realized “something was not right.” The complainant was “distraught, not herself,” she said. In the days and weeks that followed, the complainant cried in bed “quite often,” which was not a normal occurrence before then, he said.
During cross-examination Friday, defence lawyers suggested the close friend hadn't observed any injuries to the complainant and was simply repeating what the complainant had told her about being in pain.