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Hoggard, 34, and Canadian actress Rebekah Asselstine tied the knot on Monday, according to photos and videos shared by wedding guests on social media. The couple’s reception took place in the...
Rebekah Asselstine was born on 27 June 1990 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for The Unseen (2016), Supergirl (2015) and Last Night in Suburbia (2017).
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Jan 2, 2019 · Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard became a married man on New Year's Eve, wedding Canadian actress Rebekah Asselstine in Vancouver while facing sex assault charges in Ontario.
- Hoggard Facing A New Charge
- Online Allegations Surrounding Hoggard
- Former Hedley Drummer Gave Video to Police
- Evidence of Grooming Barred
- Defence Sought to Have The Cases Tried Separately
- Similarities Between The Two Complainants' Accounts
- Texts and Call Between Hoggard and The Complainants
Hoggard was charged in March with sexual assault causing bodily harmagainst another complainant in an incident alleged to have taken place in Kirkland Lake, Ont., on July 25, 2016. The case was briefly before a court in nearby Haileybury, Ont., last Thursday and is set to return on Aug. 4. Hoggard's lawyer, Megan Savard, said Tuesday her client is ...
Neither lawyers nor witnesses in the trial could allude in front of the jury to various anonymous allegations about Hoggard that emerged online before his arrest in 2018. In the second week of trial, defence lawyers asked the court to declare a mistrial after the second complainant briefly referenced other allegations. The complainant testified tha...
Prosecutors sought to call Hedley's former drummer, Chris Crippin, to testify that Hoggard at one point sent him a video of himself masturbating in an airplane bathroom. In pre-trial motions heard last year, Crippin — who was fired from the band in 2016 — said he did not consent to receiving the video, but kept it and eventually turned it in to pol...
Prosecutors were barred from using what the judge deemed "highly prejudicial labels" such as grooming, luring and possession of child pornography in front of the jury while discussing Hoggard's interactions with the teenage complainant. Before trial, the defence sought to have some aspects of the teenage complainant's expected evidence excluded fro...
Hoggard's lawyers twice sought to have the case split into separate trials, arguing the evidence expected from the teenage complainant could affect the jury's assessment of the evidence regarding the second complainant. In an initial application in 2020, the defence argued the "bad character evidence" related to the allegations involving the teen c...
The Crown had to make an application before it could urge the jury to consider the similarities between the two complainants' accounts as a pattern of behaviour. In the application, which took place after prosecutors presented their evidence but before the defence began to do so, Crown attorney Jill Witkin noted both accounts include sexual acts th...
The admissibility of certain text messages between Hoggard and the complainants was ruled on before the trial, but the issue unexpectedly re-emerged as the defence cross-examined the second complainant. The Crown was given permission before trial to introduce some evidence related to text messages between Hoggard and the two complainants. The Crown...
Oct 6, 2022 · Jacob Hoggard and his wife, Rebekah Asselstine, arrive at court for sentencing hearings on Thursday. Toronto Star. By Alyshah Hasham Courts Reporter. Warning: Graphic content. The months after an...
- Alyshah Hasham
- ahasham@thestar.ca
Oct 20, 2022 · Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard alongside his wife, Rebekah Asselstine, arrive at a Toronto courthouse on Thursday for sentencing after he was found guilty earlier this year of sexually...
May 10, 2022 · Jacob Hoggard, middle, and his wife, Rebekah Asselstine, left, leave court on May 10, 2022. The former Hedley frontman’s sex assault trial is expected to run until early June. (Alex Lupul/CBC)
