Toronto Radio: Ghomeshi Accuser Sent Emails

Jian Ghomeshi

One of the complainants in the Jian Ghomeshi trial who told police and the court she had no subsequent contact with him after two alleged attacks testified Tuesday that she sent him two emails and a picture of her in a bikini more than a year later.

The woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, said she sent the emails to bait him into calling her to explain his actions, reports the CBC.

Ghomeshi, 48, who lives in Toronto, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking, all related to assaults that allegedly took place from 2002 to 2003.

On the second day of the trial, defence lawyer Marie Henein continued to pound away at the credibility of the woman. She methodically went through statements made by the woman to the media, police, the Crown and court in which she said she had no contact with Ghomeshi, the former host of the CBC Show Q. And Henein drove home the point that the woman had said, repeatedly, that she would turn off the radio or television if Ghomeshi appeared, as it only served to re-traumatize her and force her to relive the violence.

"The email was bait, was bait to call me to get an explanation to why he punched me in the head," she said.

But  Henein argued that was at odds with statements she had given  to the police, the Crown and court in which she said she never had any contact with Ghomeshi after the date of the second assault, and that she refused to listen to him on the radio or watch him on television because it re-traumatized her.

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