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More bar video evidence expected at ex-world junior hockey players' sex assault trial in London, Ont.

WARNING: This article references sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it.

Technical problems in the London, Ont., courtroom plagued Tuesday's proceedings at the sexual assault trial for five former world junior hockey players, forcing Justice Maria Carroccia to adjourn early after more video evidence was shown.

The hearings in Superior Court began Monday, and CBC will continue to bring you them live. 

Michael McLeod, Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Carter Hart and Alex Formenton — who all had NHL careers at one point — have pleaded not guilty. McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to a charge of being party to the offence, laid because the Crown alleges he encouraged and helped his teammates engage in sexual activity with the complainant without her consent.

Before they were sent home Tuesday after the lunch break, jurors watched several surveillance videos taken inside Jack's Bar and Grill. Some players went there on June 18, 2018, following a gala in the southwestern Ontario city to celebrate the world title the team won months earlier.

The complainant in this case was also at that bar at the time — she's known in court as E.M. because of a publication ban protecting her identity.  

Also shown Tuesday were videos taken from the phone of Drake Batherson, who was on that junior team and now plays for the NHL's Ottawa Senators. 

Videos on his phone show many young men having fun in the crowded and lively bar. They were smiling at the camera and jumping gleefully on the dance floor. London police Det. Tiffany Waque, a witness at the trial, identified some of them as Batherson, Foote, Brett Howden and Cale Makar. 

Howden now plays for the Senators and Makar is

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