A Royal Navy sailor has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a male colleague with a beer bottle aboard a warship. Logistician Andrew Donaldson, 34, was found guilty of assault by penetration by a panel of senior officers at a court martial in Portsmouth.
Donaldson was dismissed with disgrace from the service and ordered to sign the sex offenders register. The incident occurred in August 2013 while HMS Northumberland was docked in Bournemouth, Dorset, for an air show.
Two other sailors were also jailed in connection with the incident. Leading Seaman Christopher Cook, 31, was found guilty of disgraceful conduct of an indecent kind and sentenced to 15 months, dismissed with disgrace and disrated. Leading Logistician Roger Spratt, 28, who pleaded guilty to filming the incident, received eight months' detention and was disrated.
The court heard that the victim had been drinking heavily and fell asleep after an event in the petty officer's mess. He awoke to find Donaldson assaulting him with a beer bottle. In a statement, the victim said he had not given anyone permission to touch him.
