Matthew McKnight went to trial last October on 13 counts of sexual assault involving 13 women, and was convicted by a jury in January on five of the charges, and found not guilty on the other eight
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Mr. McKnight, now 33, went to trial last October on 13 counts of sexual assault involving 13 women, and was convicted by a jury in January on five of the charges, and found not guilty on the other eight. The hearing has spanned four days and will continue on July 23, with Justice Doreen Sulyma sentencing Mr. McKnight at some point after that.Mr. McKnight is expected to address the court again before his sentencing.
To the defence, Mr. McKnight was merely a promiscuous man who used alcohol as part of his work and had sex with a lot of women, some of whom later made allegations against him. Mr. Bottos described the five sexual assaults as “not a pattern, but a collection of five random encounters” in which Mr. McKnight “simply went too far.”
Testifying in his own defence, Mr. McKnight described in great detail each woman and each night, down to the crack of a bottle opening, or touching a woman’s hand.
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