A soldier who grabbed the bottoms of two female colleagues while they were on parade to lighten the mood has been found guilty of sexual assault and jailed for two months. Smirking Trooper Phillip Ewart, 29, of the Household Cavalry pinched the women within minutes of each other as they stood by his side at Windsor Barracks.
When asked to explain squeezing the women s behinds, he told Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire that it was just banter and he would have done it to a male colleague as well.
But after deliberating for two and a half hours, the court martial board found Tpr Ewart guilty of two charges of sexual assault.