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Royal Navy officer who groped a junior sailor’s leg should pay her £500 compensation

Royal Navy officer who groped a junior sailor’s leg and advised her he wished to ‘break up her open like a can of beans’ should pay her £500 compensation and full 80 hours of unpaid work

  • Married Royal Navy Petty Officer Lee O’Donnell groped a junior sailor’s leg
  • He mentioned that he wished to ‘bend her over and break up her open like a can of beans’
  • PO O’Donnell — who has since left the Navy — was discovered responsible of sexual assault

A Royal Navy Petty Officer who groped a junior sailor’s leg earlier than telling her he wished to ‘bend her over and break up her open like a can of beans’ has been ordered to pay her £500.

Lee O’Donnell drunkenly stared on the girl’s chest, telling her she was ‘match’ earlier than saying he want to put her in a handstand and lick her ‘up and down’.

The married sailor’s ‘crude’ behaviour left his alleged sufferer questioning whether or not the Navy was the ‘proper place’ for her, a court docket martial was advised.

He was discovered responsible of sexual assault after a trial final month and has now been sentenced to neighborhood service consisting of 80 hours of unpaid work and ordered to attend 50 days of ‘rehabilitation exercise’.

PO O’Donnell — who has since left the Navy — was additionally advised to pay his sufferer £500 in compensation.

Petty officer Lee O'Donnell groped a junior sailor's leg before telling her he wanted to 'bend her over and split her open like a can of beans'

Petty officer Lee O’Donnell groped a junior sailor’s leg earlier than telling her he wished to ‘bend her over and break up her open like a can of beans’

The listening to in November was advised the incident occurred when PO O’Donnell was working as an teacher on an plane engineering course at HMS Sultan in Gosport, Hants.

Bulford Navy Courtroom, Wiltshire, heard that following a sequence of messages within the course WhatsApp group, PO O’Donnell had organized to fulfill up with a few of his pupils on the navy base’s Gearbox Bar.

The Petty Officer turned as much as the bar already ‘p***ed’ and sat round a desk on an L-shaped couch along with his alleged sufferer and the remainder of the group, the court docket heard.

He had already drunk three bottles of wine at a ‘cheese and wine’ occasion with a colleague earlier than ingesting cider and photographs of tequila within the bar, the board was advised.

PO O’Donnell was sat round a desk with 5 sailors when he’s alleged to have groped the girl.

The court docket heard that the course had an ‘inside joke’ about folks staring on the girl’s nipples after one other sailor was caught doing so inside two weeks of her beginning within the Navy.

While on the desk, PO O’Donnell regarded on the girl’s chest himself, and mentioned ‘I can see why (he) was your nipples,’ the court docket heard.

Main James Eveleigh, prosecuting mentioned: ‘[PO O’Donnell] stared at her chest and made a remark about her nipples. He positioned his hand on her proper leg and moved it up in direction of her groin.

He told service police that he could not remember anything about the night, the court heard

He advised service police that he couldn’t bear in mind something concerning the night time, the court docket heard

‘His hand was slapped away [by the woman,] however he put it again and started to squeeze her leg. [He then] invited the get together to admire how “match” she was, and made crude feedback about her [in front of the group.]

‘He invited her to take him again to his cabin.’

In a police interview recording proven to the court docket, the feminine sailor — who can’t be named for authorized causes — mentioned: ‘His left hand along with his wedding ceremony ring on, went on my leg.

‘He began feeling up my leg. He received everybody to take a look at me and mentioned “she’s so f***ing match”.

‘He mentioned he wished to bend me over-the-counter and break up me open like a can of beans. He additionally mentioned he wished to place me in a handstand and lick me up and down.

‘I did get a bit scared. I began pondering, is the Navy proper for me?’

The next day PO O’Donnell instructed a category with the group, the court docket was advised.

The ‘hungover’ Petty Officer advised college students that he had vomited pink wine in every single place in his cabin, the court docket heard.

After the incident had been reported to police, PO O’Donnell was interviewed and charged.

He advised service police that he couldn’t bear in mind something concerning the night time, the court docket heard.

Following a two day trial PO O’Donnell was discovered responsible of 1 cost of sexual assault.

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