None was told about the option of a peace bond. Lucy DeCoutere says Crown lawyers spent very little time talking with her and the two other complainants before the sexual assault trial against Ghomeshi in February. “I never knew that a peace bond was available.” Ghomeshi signed a peace bond and publicly apologized Wednesday to former CBC colleague Kathryn Borel, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her at work in 2008, after the Crown withdrew related charges against him. “This wasn’t an avenue that we could pursue because it was never offered to us,” Lucy DeCoutere said in an interview with The Canadian Press. DeCoutere, a former Trailer Park Boys actress, said Crown lawyers spent very little time talking with her and the two other complainants before trial in February.

Source: thestar May 11, 2016 15:27 UTC