Hedley’s Hoggard Found Guilty of Sex Assault Against Woman, Acquitted on Two Other Charges

Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard arrives alongside his wife Rebekah Asselstine, for his sex assault trial at a court in Toronto on May 10, 2022. The Canadian Press/Cole Burston

TORONTO—Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian band Hedley, has been found guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm against an Ottawa woman but acquitted of the same charge against a teenage fan.

Hoggard, 37, has also been found not guilty of sexual interference, a charge that relates to the sexual touching of someone under 16, in an incident involving the same fan when she was 15.