'I took her removing her pants as consent,' David Leslie Joseph Wilson testified.
A Canadian Armed Forces officer on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a crewmate has denied the charge, saying the woman consented to sex when she removed her pants.
The woman, whose named is protected by a publication ban, told Provincial Court Judge Nancy Adams Oct. 24 that David Leslie Joseph Wilson penetrated her after returning to the ship drunk. Court heard the ship was docked in Vancouver harbour performing operations prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
He said she left the mess just after he did and they proceeded to a lower deck where their cabins were close to each other.Asked by Medjuck how tall he was, Wilson said 5’11”. He estimated the woman as being four inches shorter than him.Wilson said he then left the ship to go ashore with others. He soon returned without telling his group he was leaving, he said.However, he told the court, on his return, he went to the woman’s cabin, knocked and did not get a response.
He said he entered the woman’s cabin and called her name several times. When she awoke, he asked her if she wanted to go for a cigarette. She said no.He said she removed her pyjama bottoms as he removed his pants.Wilson denied the woman’s testimony that he had pulled her hair, held her head in a pillow or held her down.
Wilson testified under questioning from defence lawyer David Karp that he asked the woman after sex if she wanted him to stay.“She opened by saying, ‘We all get horny but you can’t just jump into my bunk,’” Wilson said. “I was flabbergasted.”
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