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TORONTO — It is tempting to say that if the first complainant in the Jian Ghomeshi sex assault trial thought the former CBC star threw a hard right cross, that was before she learned about Marie Henein’s.

Alas, it would be giving too much credit to Henein, who is Ghomeshi’s lead defence lawyer. She was very good in her day-and-a-half-long cross-examination of the woman, but so unreliable a witness — so flakey — was the woman that it was akin to shooting a flea with an elephant gun.

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Ghomeshi is charged with two counts of sex assault relating to this now 54-year-old woman. They were allegedly vicious attacks.

One, in December of 2002, happened in his car and involved him allegedly yanking the woman’s hair and pulling her head back until it hurt.

The other, on Jan. 2, 2003, happened at his Riverdale, Toronto, home and involved him allegedly grabbing the woman by the hair again and punching her hard three times in the side of the head, such that her ears rang and she felt as if she had walked into a pole.