James Duncan Keats sexual assault case hears final arguments

The trial of aparamedic charged with twice sexually assaulting a 72-year-old woman heardfinal arguments in the case Tuesday.

James Duncan Keats is facing trial in Windsor provincial court. He's accused of sexually assaulting an Annapolis Valley woman in her home and during an ambulance ride to hospital.

In closing arguments Tuesday, Keats's lawyer said the woman's version of what happened in her bedroom was contradicted by Keats's paramedic partner.

The lawyer says the woman described an "acrobatic" assault involving several different positions, which the lawyer said was not believable.

The Crown countered that Keats lawyer kept going over the same points of evidence, soit was understandable that her version would vary each time she had to tell it.

Keats fired

Thewoman saysKeats sexually assaulted her in May 2013.

Her often-graphic testimony opened Keats's trialin September.She said Keats raped her in her bedroom afterhe and another paramedic answered a call to help her injured husband.

While police were investigating those allegations, the woman said she remembered a separate assault by Keats that happened earlier, while she and Keats were riding in the back of an ambulance on their way to hospital.

Judge Claudine Macdonald reserved her decision. Keats will learn his fate on June 24.

Keats was arrested in 2013. He was put on suspension from his paramedic duties, and was then fired late last year as allegationsemerged in court.