Gurkha ‘sexually assaulted’ female soldier by ‘impersonating’ colleague

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Mr Peters said Rfn Gurung then tried to get her to drink some Jagermeister he had brought with him and some of the beer she had left unfinished, before launching an assault on her.

Mr Peters told the court that Rfn Gurung began kissing and touching her sexually a number of times, despite the woman repeatedly telling him to stop.

The prosecutor continued: “He asked her if she remembered him from the weekend before.

“She asked him what his name was and he said [the other man’s name].”

The court heard the woman had saved the previous Gurkha’s number in her phone as “Gurkha 1” and threatened to ring it, at which point “it became clear he was not the same man”.

The only way she could get rid of him was by telling him she did not want to have sex that night because she was sober but would be drinking with his unit the following night.

After he left, she told her friends what had happened and also called “Gurkha 1”, who told her it was not him.

When she was interviewed, the female soldier told Royal Military Police she was “confused” and initially thought Rfn Gurung must have been the other Gurkha she had slept with before because it was dark in her room and “they are all Gurkhas and they all look the same”.

She told the court she hadn’t wanted to “kick off” initially after the man started kissing her in case it was the same Gurkha.

Woman could tell he had ‘different accent’

But when Rfn Gurung started trying to impersonate the other man she said she could tell by his accent that it was a different person.

The next day, she went to confront the Gurkhas about the incident to find out who it was, the court heard.

Rfn Gurung told the Royal Military Police he was “very drunk that night and didn’t know what happened”.

He said he may have accidentally touched the female soldier’s chest but denied everything else.

Rfn Gurung, of 1 Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles, denies three counts of sexual assault by touching.

The trial continues.

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