Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard was sentenced to five years behind bars on Thursday in the sexual assault of an Ottawa woman, an offence the presiding judge called a “particularly degrading rape.” In delivering her sentence in a downtown Toronto courtroom, Ontario Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts said Hoggard’s offence involved “gratuitous degradation” and “gratuitous violence.” “It…

Lawyers for Jacob Hoggard are suggesting a young woman expressed “sexual interest” in the musician in messages before an incident in which she alleges he violently raped her. The woman, who is one of two complainants in Hoggard’s sex assault trial, is being cross-examined by the defence in a downtown Toronto courtroom. Defence lawyer Megan…