A judge has sentenced former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard to five years in prison for a particularly “manipulative and degrading” rape.
“I believe (the victim). I accept her evidence in its entirety,” Justice Gillian Roberts said in a Toronto court Thursday.
After a four-week trial in May and a six-days of contentious deliberation, a jury found the 38-year-old former Hedley frontman guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm of the Ottawa woman, but not guilty of groping a 15-year-old fan after a concert and sexually assaulting her in a hotel room after she turned 16.
