A British Army sergeant who sexually assaulted two Royal Marines at a military nuclear warfare training centre has been spared jail after blaming his behaviour on alcohol and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sergeant Martin Leatherbarrow, 42, stroked a male Marine’s thigh towards his genitals and kissed him on the head before grabbing a female colleague’s bottom and whispering ‘God, you’re so nice’ into her ear.
The soldier, who served in the Army for more than 25 years, targeted the two junior-ranking Marines during a drunken evening at the Defence Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (DCBRN) Centre near Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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