Actress Lucy DeCoutere to testify against Ghomeshi at sex assault trial

Ghomeshi has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance, choking. “I thought to be assaulted you had to be broken and raped”.

After the alleged assault, they also interacted following Ghomeshi’s infamous Billy Bob Thornton interview on his CBC Radio show Q, when she posted on Facebook in support of the actor.

“As I say this now it’s outrageous that I stayed and I didn’t just leave, but that was my reaction”, she said.

DeCoutere recalled they went out for dinner together – at one point Ghomeshi said he wanted to take her back to his home and hold her _ and then walked to his house, though, she noted, she had no intention of having sex with him.

In the first incident, Ghomeshi would have pulled her hair violently while kissing “sensually”. She also said she didn’t remember the emails when she spoke to police and to Crown prosecutors.

The woman who testified against Ghomeshi earlier this week said he was a charming gentleman with a dark side and attacked her in December 2002 and January 2003. The second mailowed the court another sent five months later began, “Hi, Jian, I’ve been watching you on Screw The Vote”, referring to a one-time CBC special that aired in May, 2004. The complainant told the defense lawyer that she had sent these emails to the facilitator as “bait” to communicate with her and she could ask him to explain his violent acts.

“I had mixed feelings, very mixed feelings”, DeCoutere said, adding that she was trying to “normalize a rough situation”.

Jian Ghomeshi’s criminal trial has wrapped it’s third day, with the court hearing from another of the former CBC Star’s accusers today.

“It just started, there was no buildup”, she said.

The trial first heard that the woman didn’t contact Ghomeshi after the alleged assaults, save for perhaps writing him an email in anger which she may or may not have sent.

Henein noted that the actress only disclosed them to the Crown this week, after the first complainant to testify at the trial was confronted with her own emails to the disgraced broadcaster that contradicted testimony about not contacting Ghomeshi after her separate alleged assaults.

DeCoutere said the hitting and choking seemed more like a power thing than a sexual act. It contained a photo of her on the beach in a bikini.

There’s a strong possibility the complainant could be identified by the photo, even with her face blurred, her lawyer argued.

Fischer said the woman’s face and any identifying marks would be blurred, and emphasized that media outlets would adhere to the publication ban protecting the woman’s identity.

In this case, he said, the image “has been thoroughly and sufficiently described on the record… you don’t need to see it to get the picture”, and, therefore, ordered the picture remain sealed.

The Crown and a lawyer for the complainant both urged the judge to deny release of the photo.

In cross examination Marie Henein, Ghomeshi’s lawyer, asked DeCoutere why she didn’t tell police about the kiss on Ghomeshi’s couch, and a kiss goodbye, the night of the alleged attack.