An RAF officer groped his colleague’s wife, telling her ‘I’d only need five minutes’, a court martial has heard.
Flight Lieutenant Jonathan Gwynn allegedly told the woman on the dance floor at a Battle of Britain dinner he wanted to have sex with her, to which she responded: ‘Well, my husband would have something to say about that.’
Prior to the alleged incident, the officer was said to have tried to throw sweets down her cleavage. They later danced together and he is accused of pressing himself against her and grabbing her bottom, leaving her ‘shocked’, a panel was told yesterday.
Gwynn was so drunk by the time his alleged victim left shortly after that he was asleep on the floor at the officers’ mess, Prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Chris Adair told the court.
The father is on trial at Bulford Military Court, Wiltshire, after pleading not guilty to one count of sexual assault.
RAF officer Flt Lt Jonathan Gwynn arriving at Bulford Military Court Centre
Gwynn is on trial at Bulford Military Court after pleading not guilty to one count of sexual assault
In a video statement shown to the court, the woman said: ‘It was intentional, it was borderline aggressive. He leaned in and said to me “I want to f*** you, I want to f*** you hard.” He was pushing himself, his groin area into me while he did it… I was just shocked by it.’ She added he was clearly drunk by this point, saying: ‘I don’t even know if he would remember it.’
She said that before the assault, she had trusted the officer as he ‘dressed up as an elf for the Christmas family happy hour’, and supported families on the RAF base where they were situated.
Lt Col Adair told the court Gwynn ‘strongly denied touching her in any way’ and denied he was drunk.
The trial continues.
