Retired vice admiral Haydn Edmundson is taking the stand in his own defence at his sexual assault trial in Ottawa.
Last week, court heard at length from the woman who accuses Mr. Edmundson of sexually assaulting her on board a navy ship in 1991.
She testified that she felt frozen and unable to leave when Mr. Edmundson called her into his sleeping quarters the night of the assault.
The Crown’s case was dealt a blow on Feb. 8 during a withering cross-examination of a key witness who had corroborated the woman’s version of events.
Mr. Edmundson’s defense lawyer, Brian Greenspan, introduced a transcript of an interview the witness did with the CBC before she went to police.
In that interview, the CBC reporter appeared to disclose to the witness a number of important details about the accuser’s story.
