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The evidentiary part of the sexual assault trial of three Toronto police officers is over, with only closing submissions and the judge’s decision to come.

The three — Leslie Nyznik, Sameer Kara and Joshua Cabero — are pleading not guilty to forcing sex upon a female parking enforcement colleague in a downtown hotel room on Jan. 17, 2015.

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The three say the sex was consensual; the 36-year-old woman says it absolutely wasn’t, and that whether because of the drinks she had or because she was as she suspects drugged, she couldn’t move or even speak.

The final defence witness was Detective Barry Radford, a supervisor who attended “the rookie buy night” party and bar hop.

Radford made it as far as the Brass Rail strip club that night, the last stop before the hotel, and on the cab ride there, with Nyznik, another male officer and the woman in the back seat, laughing and engaging in what he considered was “sexual innuendo,” he was profoundly uneasy, with alarm bells ringing.