A social worker on trial for one count each of sexual assault, forcible confinement and uttering threats from an alleged 2013 incident in Lytton denied all allegations against him in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Taking the stand in his own defence, Michael Hume said none of the allegations are true.
Jurors heard the complainant, who can’t be identified because of a court order protecting his identity, threatened to ruin Hume’s reputation in the small Fraser Canyon community if he didn’t give him $200.
Hume said in court he did not comply with the man’s attempt to extort him, then gave him a ride to his cousin’s house.
The man, now 20, testified he awoke after a night of drinking in August 2013 at Hume’s Lytton home to find Hume shaving his body hair. The complainant also alleges Hume threatened him and held him against his will.
Hume was arrested while in Merritt that month.
