Boozy Royal Navy chef forced male colleague’s head into her cleavage at bash on warship
A BOOZY Royal Navy chef shoved a male colleague’s head into her cleavage at a party on a warship.
Leading Rating Natasha Crawley also straddled another panic-stricken shipmate, a court martial was told.
The 30-year-old — previously disciplined for having sex on a ship in 2015 — turned up to the New Year’s Eve bash “tipsy” with a bottle of red wine.
She was on HMS Lancaster which was attacked in the Red Sea a week earlier.
At around 2am, she fell into a colleague then “grabbed him with both hands and pulled him into her, his head into her chest”.
Prosecutor Rupert Gregory told Bulford military court in Wiltshire the man “told her to get off him” and it took “some force” to separate them.
She then sat on another colleague’s lap and tried to kiss him, “leaving him with panic in his eyes”.
Mr Gregory added: “He pushed her away as two others dragged her away by her shoulders.”
She was then “screaming and shouting” on her way to her cabin, where it took 90 minutes to put her to bed.
Fiona Edington, representing the sailor, said: “She had drunk too much and she apologises for that.”
She was working 18 hours a day and had “exemplary service”.
Assistant Judge Advocate John Atwill told LR Crawley, who is heavily pregnant: “Your behaviour was crass and offensive.”
But he accepted it “was an isolated incident” and that her remorse was genuine.
She was handed 16 weeks in service detention, suspended for 18 months.