Female submariner says Navy colleague raped her at Faslane

A pistillate submariner has alleged she was raped by a workfellow 3 years agone portion they were serving astatine the Faslane Naval basal connected the Clyde.

The pistillate told the High Court successful Livingston she had been celebrating a colleague's qualification connected committee the submarine, and backmost astatine the messiness basal bar, earlier she was sexually assaulted.

Jake Wilson, from Gosport successful Hampshire, denies rape and has lodged a peculiar defence of consent.

The 38-year-old besides denies sexually assaulting different pistillate connected respective occasions, including connected committee a atomic submarine.

The pistillate sailor said she was precise drunk connected the nighttime of the alleged assault, and had needed assistance to permission the messiness barroom and instrumentality to her compartment successful an accommodation artifact connected the basal astatine Gare Loch.

She and her colleagues past continued to enactment done the aboriginal hours of the morning.

The sailor, who had been drinking larboard and wine, said she came circular aboriginal to find herself unsocial truthful went to furniture and fell dormant immediately.

However she awoke to find a antheral connected apical of her.

She told the court: "Next happening I retrieve is idiosyncratic being connected apical of maine and someone's face.

"I was precise confused. I felt a beard connected my look truthful I knew it was a man. I didn't cognize who."

She said the antheral whispered "I stake you're gladsome I came backmost now" arsenic helium groped her and past raped her.

The pistillate said she remembered "trying truly hard to propulsion him disconnected of maine and saying 'no'.

"I was fractional dormant inactive and I was truthful drunk that I couldn't physically propulsion him."

She told the assemblage that petty serviceman Jake Wilson was the idiosyncratic who was having enactment with her.

Wilson, 38, from Gosport, Hampshire, is charged with raping the pistillate connected 11 May 2023 and sexually assaulting a 2nd submariner connected assorted occasions betwixt 1 October 2021 and 3 November 2022 by spanking her connected the buttocks and hugging her.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to some charges and has lodged a peculiar defence that some complainers consented to intersexual activity.

It has been agreed that it was him who had intersexual interaction with the women.

The trial, earlier impermanent justice John Morris, continues.