Bestselling Canadian author Steven Galloway denied in court Wednesday sexually assaulting a former UBC student, saying the majority of details described by his alleged victim were fabrications.
The former chair of the University of British Columbia creative writing department is suing four individuals for defamation, including his main accuser, “A.B.,” in a trial that began in B.C. Supreme Court this week.
Galloway says the defendants' false statements ruined his career and reputation.
Details of A.B.'s accusations put into evidence are from a 2016 investigation prepared for UBC by retired Supreme Court justice Mary-Ellen Boyd. A.B., whose name is under a publication ban, is not testifying at the trial.
In one account, A.B. said she was on Galloway’s sailboat in March 2011 when he choked and forcibly kissed her, before attempting to throw her into a bunk, twice.
“That just flat out never happened,” said Galloway. He also called the claim of him lifting and throwing A.B. into the bunk “absurd” because of the tiny size of the door leading to it.
Galloway said another allegation that he sexually assaulted A.B. in his UBC office on May 5, 2011, was “entirely false.”
A.B.'s accusation included that he was watching a hockey game on his computer after the assault. But Galloway told the court that could not be true because there was no streaming in 2011. He said he wasn’t in his office on the evening in question because he was watching a Vancouver Canucks playoff game at a campus...
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