CALGARY — A man being retried after a judge's controversial remarks in a sexual assault case says he really liked the woman who has accused him of rape and would never have forced himself on her.
Alexander Scott Wagar testified under cross-examination that he was a Christian and "would swear on a Bible" that the sex with the young woman, who was 19 at the time, was consensual.
Wagar also re-enacted the alleged rape for the court — with body movements and gestures.
He said she never said no and encouraged him to go ahead when they had sex in a bathroom at a house party in 2011.
Wagar was acquitted of sexual assault in 2014 by Robin Camp, a provincial court judge at the time, who suggested the complainant should have just kept her knees together.
The verdict was overturned on appeal and this week's new trial was ordered.
