Military investigator testifies at British sailors’ sex assault trial
HALIFAX — A military police officer who investigated an alleged group sexual assault at a Halifax-area military base told the trial of two British sailors Wednesday that the complainant was visibly upset during their interview.
Darren Smalley and Simon Radford are charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm and participating in a sexual assault involving one or more people in barracks at CFB Shearwater in April 2015.
Sgt. Tyler Bruce-Hayes, the Crown’s first witness, told Nova Scotia Supreme Court that the complainant was crying when he first saw her at a Halifax hospital in the early hours of April 11, 2015.
Bruce-Hayes said he had received a call hours earlier that a sexual assault had occurred at Shearwater.