[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by chedder

From Rick Westhead on X today:

Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham claimed in court that Brett Howden was being untruthful when he testified he couldn’t recall details that could hurt 5 of his former teammates on Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who are on trial for sexual assault.
Cunningham: “Mr. Howden’s memory loss is a feigned memory loss, not a sincere one... He remembers some details but doesn’t remember the details that are particularly damning to his friends and teammates.”
Howden has testified he did not see Dillon Dube slap E.M.
Cunningham read a text message Howden sent to Team Canada teammate Taylor Raddysh in 2018 in which Howden wrote, “Dude, I’m so happy I left when all the #### went down. Haha. Man, when I was leaving, Duber was smacking this girl’s ass so hard. Like, it looks like it hurt so bad.”
Cunningham said that in 2022, Howden told an investigator, “I do remember seeing the smack. That was drawing a line for me to leave because I had felt uncomfortable to that point. Once I had seen that, I just wanted to be out of there…”
Cunningham also said that in a 2018 interview with an investigator, Howden said, “I just heard her kind of weeping. I didn’t know what was going on. I went to my room because I didn’t want to be part of anything.

This is the first I have heard of that text message. "it looks like it hurt so bad". Was he asked about that already during his testimony and said he doesn't remember?