Former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexual assault
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Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard was sentenced to five years in prison by a Toronto judge on Thursday.
It was the third and final day of a sentencing hearing that began earlier this month.
Hoggard, the former lead singer of rock band Hedley, was found guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm in June after raping an Ottawa woman in 2016.
The Crown was seeking a sentence of six to seven years for Hoggard, while the defence proposed a more lenient sentence of three to four years.
Hoggard pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm at his trial in June. His lawyers had argued that Hoggard had consensual sex with the complainant.
The woman was in her early twenties when Hoggard, who is from B.C.'s Lower Mainland, assaulted her in a Toronto hotel room. She cannot be identified under a publication ban.
Hoggard was also charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm against a 16-year-old fan and sexual interference involving that complainant but was found not guilty on those charges.
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