Differing accounts of alleged fire station assault emerge in court

A witness at the trial of a former Ottawa firefighter charged with choking an openly non-binary colleague during a dispute over who'd wash the dinner dishes painted a starkly different picture of the accused than the one the complainant described to police, who initially investigated the incident as a hate crime. 

Differing accounts of alleged fire station assault emerge in court
The front of a fire station on a sunny spring day.

A witness at the trial of a former Ottawa firefighter charged with choking an openly non-binary colleague during a dispute over who'd wash the dinner dishes painted a starkly different picture of the accused than the one the complainant described to police, who initially investigated the incident as a hate crime.