WINNIPEG – A Manitoba judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Graham James, a convicted sex offender and former junior hockey coach.

The suit alleged James sexually assaulted a Winnipeg man over two weeks in 1983, when the man was a student at an elementary school where James worked as a substitute teacher.

Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Justice Sarah Inness ruled this week that the complainant believes James abused him as a child but the evidence presented in court was unreliable.

“The issue in this case is more about the reliability of (the complainant’s) evidence in identifying James as the perpetrator, as opposed to the credibility of his complaints of sexual assault,” Inness said it a written decision Tuesday.

The lawsuit, filed in 2023, also named the St. James Assiniboia School Di

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