Friend testifies at British sailor’s sexual assault trial in Halifax
HALIFAX — A young woman has testified at the sexual assault trial of a British sailor that she found the complainant red in the face with no clothes on in a bed in the barracks of a Halifax-area military base.
The woman in her 20s from Halifax, who described herself as the complainant’s best friend, said she was “visibly upset.”
“She was saying, ‘I need to get out of here. We need to leave’,” she told Darren Smalley’s trial on charges of sexual assault causing bodily harm and participating in a group sexual assault in barracks at 12 Wing Shearwater on April 10, 2015.
The woman said she had met a British sailor on the dating app Tinder and he invited her to a hockey game in Shearwater on April 9, 2015. She invited the complainant, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, to go with her.