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Free Press readers were first introduced to Jay Macaulay last December. Macaulay s journey, from Winnipeg hockey star to sexual assault victim, was the centrepiece of sports writer Jeff Hamilton s investigation into the legacy of sexual predator and disgraced hockey coach Graham James.
The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
Free Press readers were first introduced to Jay Macaulay last December. Macaulay s journey, from Winnipeg hockey star to sexual assault victim, was the centrepiece of sports writer Jeff Hamilton s investigation into the legacy of sexual predator and disgraced hockey coach Graham James.
Macaulay revealed publicly for the first time, in unflinching details, the abuse he suffered as a member of the Swift Current Broncos team James coached in the late 1980s and how his life was irreparably damaged.
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The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
IT’S an image that came to haunt Ivano Buccini.
The longtime teacher at Silver Heights Collegiate recalled being impressed in the early 1980s after watching Graham James help a young hockey player with his homework in a classroom. I remember thinking, ‘Wow, what a great coach to take this kind of interest,’ said Buccini, who died of cancer in March.
About this series
Graham James was last seen in a courtroom in the summer of 2015.
Appearing via video link from a Quebec prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach pleaded guilty in a Swift Current courtroom to sexual assault on one of his players during the early 1990s, and was sentenced to two additional years behind bars.
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It’s a warm late-August afternoon and Jay Macaulay is sitting in the empty lobby of Winnipeg’s train station fidgeting with a pen.
The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
It’s a warm late-August afternoon and Jay Macaulay is sitting in the empty lobby of Winnipeg’s train station fidgeting with a pen.
He just finished putting a check mark in his day planner, indicating another successfully finished workshop he’s required to attend each week as part of his parole conditions.
He says he feels good after the workshop meeting and is in a much better mood than he was earlier in the day; he had an argument with his ex-girlfriend over something he can’t even remember now.