Paratroopers 'humiliated' soldier
Updated on 23 April 2009
A group of paratroopers are on trial for allegedly indecently assaulting a young soldier in Afghanistan.
The five paratroopers, all believed to be in their 20s, "humiliated" the 19-year-old soldier because they thought he was a coward, a military court has heard.
The soldier, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was stripped naked, handcuffed, held down and then indecently assaulted while other soldiers looked on, the court martial in Colchester, Essex, was told.
Prosecutors said the incident - alleged to have taken place in a tent in southern Afghanistan in the autumn of 2006 - was photographed and videoed.
The court was shown photographs of the soldier lying naked with his hands and ankles bound.
The five paratroopers - Corporal Simon Scott, Lance Corporal Peter McKinley, Lance Corporal Jamie Morton, Lance Corporal Ian Greenslade and Private Christopher Martin - all deny "disgraceful conduct of an indecent kind".
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