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Gatineau Police are investigating accusations that he threatened to kill a woman on July 11. According to police, Batchelor is also being investigated for impaired driving and breaching bail conditions. Batchelor has not been formally charged and the Quebec allegations are far from being tested in court.

Batchelor was living in Gatineau until last Thursday, but is now residing back in Ontario.

At his recent rape trials, the first woman testified that she was too intimidated to say no, but the judge didn’t find her testimony reliable.

“Given her combative answers on the stand, her statements that she suddenly became this intimidated person are not reliable,” Beaudoin told court.

The judge found that the woman gave “long speeches” on consent.

“I find that she gave long speeches on consent and gave contradictory answers to many questions. She was very assertive and it is difficult to accept her evidence, as contradictory as it was, that she felt she had no choice but to comply with his demand for oral sex.

“She identified no behaviour on his part that would have resulted in a change from the pleasant man she had met in the pub and in the drive in the car to this forceful, controlling man she described once they got into his apartment,” Beaudoin told court.

As for the alleged rape and “rough sex,” the judge said he found it difficult to accept the complainant’s “increasingly dramatic descriptions of the violent rape she claims to have ultimately endured when the photographic evidence and the hospital reports are reviewed.”