A sentencing hearing is scheduled Thursday for Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, who was found guilty earlier this year of a sexual assault on an Ottawa woman.
A jury found the Hedley frontman, born and raised in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm in the 2016 incident, which took place in a Toronto hotel room.
But jurors found him not guilty of the same offence against a teenage fan.
Hoggard, 38, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm — one related to each complainant — and one count of sexual interference, a charge that refers
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