New evidence sought on 3rd day of Gee-Gees sexual assault trial

The first witness in the sexual assault trial of two former members of the University of Ottawa hockey team will be returning for a fourth day of testimony after he wasasked Wednesday to provide allthe records he'd kept of hismessages with the complainant.

In previous statements, the witness had said he deleted the text messages, but during cross-examination said he had some screenshots on his laptop in the courthouse. Those screenshots became 68 printed-out pages of messages, which were given to both the crown and defence.

The new evidence in thefour-year-old case comes on the second day of cross-examination of the witness, a fellow teammate of the two men on trial GuillaumeDonovan and David Foucher.

The pair are facingsexual assault chargesin connection with an incident at a hotel in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2014.

At the time, the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees werein Thunder Bayto play a game against theLakeheadUniversityThunderwolves.

Today's request came as the witness was being pressed on how previous versions of his account of the events differed from his testimony in court.

The witness was Donovan's roommate on the Thunder Bay trip. Hehad arranged to meet the alleged victim and took her back to their hotel room on the night in question.

The victim's identity is protected under a publication ban, which also preventsCBCfrom naming the witness.

Question of messages

During Tuesday's cross examination, defence lawyers asked whether the witness and the alleged victim remained in touch after the team left Thunder Bay and whether they talked about the incident.

The witness has repeatedly denied that they did.

On Wednesday, Christian Deslauriers, the lawyer for Donovan, read one of the messages to the witness from the complainant, in whichshe called him "an asshole."

The witness responded to the text by apologizing,saying he'd been kicked out of the room by a veteran player because he was a rookiea story, the witness said yesterday, had been a lie.

The witness agreed when Deslauriers suggested he had stopped communicating with the complainant after receiving advice from a lawyer. He had told police they stopped communicating around March 31, 2014.

The witness said he never feared being charged in connection to the incident.

Witness told coach incident was a 'threesome'

The witness had also previously testified thathe stopped having sex with the woman when he noticed Donovan was standing next to his bed.

He said he then left the room, without any of them exchanging words.

Deslaurierssaidthat testimony contradicted what the witness told Gee-Gees coach Real Paiement mere days after the team returned to Ottawa.

Hesaid thewitness had told his coach the complainant was "more than willing and enjoying the threesome" involving himself and Donovan.

The witnessresponded that it wasn'tcorrect for him to have told Paiement that thecomplainant had agreed to have sex with Donovan.

The defence also raised a statement the witness made to police in Ottawa thathe had thought what happened between Donovan and the complainant was "100 per cent consensual."

Establishing a timeline at the hotel

Wednesday's cross-examination also tried to determine how much the witness could see in his hotel room that night andlay out when, exactly, certain eventshappened.

The witness said he didn'trecall anyone else being in the room for about 30 minutes while he had sex with the woman, but testified that a door to an adjoining room also occupied by Gee-Gees players had opened "a few times."

He said he saw a light coming from behind him when the door would open and that he didn't notice Donovan enter the room until his roommate was right beside him.

When Donovan showed up, the witness saidhe got off the bed, went over to get his boxers and left the room in about 30 seconds but not before catching aglimpse of Donovan with his penis out and the complainant lying on her side, performing oral sex on him.

"I don't know if it was [in a] hurry. Awkward, maybe, is a better word," the witness told court.

He said heleft Donovan with the complainant for little more than three minutes, and was inthe washroom for about half that time before he saw Donovan and Foucheremerge from the room with their clothes on.

Follow along with CBC Ottawa's Matthew Kupfer, who istweeting from the trial in Thunder Bay.