A defence lawyer says former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen was extremely drunk the night he met a woman who later accused him of sexual assault.
The 23-year-old woman, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, told the court on Monday that Virtanen sexually assaulted her in a Vancouver hotel room in September 2017.
“I’m going to suggest to you, though, that you know he’s an NHL player and that you are getting close to him — indeed in that video getting close to him — because you are interested in him,” Martland said.“I don’t know NHL players’ incomes,” she said. The court has heard Virtanen and the woman exchanged numbers while in Calgary and stayed in touch via text messages and direct messages on Instagram when they both returned to B.C.
She has testified that Virtanen sexually assaulted her in the hotel room. She said she repeatedly said “no” and told him she did not want to have sex with him.The woman did not go to police in September 2017 and first spoke out about the incident in April 2021 when she posted her story to an Instagram page for survivors of sexual assault.
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