The LPS has called a news conference for Monday, when it’s expected more details will be released.

It’s alleged the incident occurred following a Hockey Canada gala in the southwestern Ontario city in June 2018, when the players were honoured for their victory at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

The police service closed the case in 2018, then reopened it in 2022 in response to public outrage following a lawsuit.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
    3·
    10 months ago

    Yup.

    The first investigation into allegations that members of the 2018 Canadian world junior team participated in a group sexual assault at a downtown hotel concluded in February 2019 that there weren’t “reasonable grounds to believe sexual assault occurred.”

    Three years later, after the allegations became public, London police reopened their investigation.

    According to documents filed in court, police now say they have reasonable grounds to believe five junior hockey players sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman at the hotel.

    Melanie Randall, a law professor at Western University in London and a legal expert on sexual assaults, says this about-face shows the original investigation was “cursory at best.”. Source