It was an incredibly surprising verdict.
After six days of deliberation, a jury of 10 men and two women found in the 2016 brutal rape of an Ottawa college student — but not guilty of raping a lovestruck 16-year-old fan or of touching her sexually when she was just 15.
Hoggard looked stricken. The former pop star, who once had the world at his feet, slumped in his chair, staring down at the counsel table in shock as his lawyer, Megan Savard, whispered in his ear, no doubt assuring him this wasn’t over.The Crown will likely appeal, as well. Of the two complainants, it was the 16-year-old who seemed the most convincing that the sex had been against her will.
It seemed like a strong Crown case — neither woman knew of the other when they went to police in 2018 with eerily similar stories of rape and degradation two years earlier by a famous pop star who seemed to become a different person, a “monster,” a “psychopath,” from the flirtatious, kind man they’d met online.
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