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An army staff sergeant had sex with an officer cadet months before she was found hanged in her room at the prestigious Sandhurst military academy, an inquest has heard.
Olivia Perks, 21, was discovered dead at the elite military training school in Berkshire on 6 February 2019.
An earlier inquest hearing recorded her provisional cause of death as “asphyxia due to hanging”.
Her inquest at Reading Town Hall heard she told Sophie Given, whom she had met on a dating site, that the staff sergeant had slept with her and she “may be pregnant”.
In the phone call on 9 December, 2018, she also said he was about 45, she was speaking to him every day and was asking whether she should reply to a text from him.
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Later, she told Ms Given the staff sergeant “encouraged her to get drunk” on a date and that she wanted to go back to Sandhurst during it.
Inappropriate relationships between officer cadets and their superiors are banned regardless of whether or not they are sexual.
Mike Rawlinson KC, who represents Ms Perks’s mother Louise Townsend, told a pre-inquest review the officer cadet had fallen victim to “gross sexual misconduct” before she died.
The inquest has also heard she had spent the night with Colour Sergeant Griffith after the Falklands Ball on February 1 2019.
People were gossiping, you could hear it. It made Liv very uncomfortable. They weren't checking in to see how she was. Others were avoiding her
Both of them denied any sexual or other inappropriate activity took place.
After the ball, Ms Perks and Colour Sergeant Griffith joined a group of officer cadets who continued drinking and at one point entered a room together and locked the door, the hearing was told.
Fellow officer cadet Anwar Zurmati said he heard “grunting noises” and that it sounded like the pair were “making out”.
The inquest heard Olivia Perks was concerned about rumours spreading about her between other cadets
He said Captain Tamara Clements and he laughed but in her witness statement, she said she heard “noises” but could not be sure where they were coming from.
The rooms had thin walls, there were many nearby and people were also making noise in the corridors, she added.
Ms Perks was walking back in her ballgown from the night before when she was seen by the regimental sergeant major, who told her “my office, now”, according to Ms Clements.
The inquest also heard rumours about the pair began spreading on WhatsApp after the ball which left Ms Perks feeling “like s***”.
Officer cadets were bothering (Olivia) trying to find out what she was doing rather than actively being concerned about her welfare
A friend, whose name was not given due to vulnerabilities, told the inquest in evidence which was read out by counsel to the coroner Bridget Dolan KC: “Someone sent a message saying she had slept with Colour Sergeant Griffith which had been circulating.
“People were gossiping, you could hear it. It made Liv very uncomfortable and made Liv feel like shit.
“They weren’t checking in to see how she was. Others were avoiding her.”
Ms Perks had made a “significant” suicide attempt following a Royal Engineers visit in July 2018 and was back in training two days later after being classed as a “low risk of reoccurrence”.
Her friend added: “I was not at the Engineers’ visit. There were rumours she had tried to kill herself and people gossiped about that.
“Officer cadets were bothering her trying to find out what she was doing rather than actively being concerned about her welfare.”
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Captain Annelise Milton told the hearing on Wednesday that Ms Perks told her “I’ve f***** up, they will kick me out of the army” following the suicide attempt.
The inquest continues.
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The King’s Coronation has undergone a last-minute change just hours before the monarch steps foot in Westminster Abbey.
Britons had been invited to pledge allegiance to the King but the Archbishop of Canterbury will make clear that people are not obligated to.
People who wish to pay homage to the 74-year-old monarch are instead "invited" to do so.
Justin Welby was originally scheduled to introduce the homage with the words: “I call upon all persons of goodwill … to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all.”
The words have been altered to now say: “I now invite those who wish to offer their support to do so, with a moment of private reflection, by joining in saying ‘God save King Charles’ at the end, or, for those with the words before them, to recite them in full.”
The change to the homage comes after King Charles came under mounting pressure from critics and even friends.
Jonathan Dimbleby, a confidante of the King and author of his 1994 biography, said: “I can think of nothing that he would find more abhorrent.”
Lambeth Palace, the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has insisted it produced the liturgy in “close consultation” with both Buckingham Palace and Whitehall.
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| NATO Warns That Russia Is Mapping EU, US Critical AssetsThe Arctic Is Where NATO and Russia Are Flexing Military MuscleNavy Sub’s South Korea Visit to Give ‘Silent Service’ Attention |
Submarines are one of Russia’s advanced capabilities that have remained largely untouched in its war in Ukraine. With a substantial fleet of nuclear-powered vessels, including ballistic missile and nuclear attack submarines, they remain a potential threat to the alliance also for more covert attacks.
NATO warned Wednesday of a significant risk that Moscow could target infrastructure in Europe and North America.
As part of the exercise dubbed Dynamic Mongoose, which started April 24 and ends Friday, 12 NATO nations, including the US, Canada, Spain and Portugal, teamed up their marine patrol aircraft, surface ships and friendly subs to search for a submarine with very little information.
The exercise took place in a strategic area for the alliance, the so-called Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, through which Russian vessels need to pass to access the Atlantic Ocean.
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Nuclear-powered submarines can give a tactical edge by generating the vessel’s air and water, allowing longer stays at sea. Diesel-powered submarines however need to replenish their batteries more often, potentially exposing their location.
“We will work with Allies and partners to identify opportunities to increase the visibility of U.S. strategic assets to the region as a demonstration of U.S. resolve and commitment, including ballistic missile submarine port visits and strategic bomber missions,” it said.
On April 18, days before the US-South Korea proclamation, the US Navy announced that the Ohio-class USS Maine made an on-surface logistics stop at the naval base in Guam.
Ronald O’Rourke, chief naval forces analyst for the Congressional Research Service, cited “unusual Navy actions late last year to publicize the presence” of nuclear-armed vessels “in the Arabian Sea, at Diego Garcia, at Gibraltar and in the Atlantic.”
He said it’s not clear whether the upcoming South Korea visit is part of such a new “public signaling strategy” or a one-time decision “reflecting circumstances specific to the security situation on the Korean Peninsula.”
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The Navy has long been fond of the publicity it gains from cooperating with filmmakers on movies from “The Hunt for Red October” in 1990 to the 2018 potboiler “Hunter Killer.”
Ohio-class submarines are the US Navy’s largest ever. At 560 feet long (171 meters) and displacing 18,750 tons when submerged, they dwarf the cruisers and destroyers used in World War II surface combat. Their Trident missiles can be configured to hold as many as 14 nuclear warheads, each capable of being guided to a different target, and boast a range of 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 kilometers), according to the Navy.
Most of the Navy’s subs “still hide in the oceans, but from time to time they have made port calls, and soon they will add South Korea to the growing list,” said Hans Kristensen, director of the Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Information Project.
It’s part of a new assignment “that contradicts their core mission of staying undetected,” he said. “But nuclear signaling is now considered so important because of competition with Russia and China that even the ‘silent service’ will occasionally show itself.”
It also may reflect efforts to counter the reality that the US submarine force is shrinking and having readiness problems, said Bryan Clark, a former special assistant to the chief of naval operations and now a naval fellow with the Hudson Institute.
“Those concerns are true, but US submarines are still the quietest and most sophisticated in the world,” he said.
Increased visibility could have its downside, especially the South Korea visit, said Brent Sadler, the Heritage Foundation’s senior research fellow for naval warfare and a Navy veteran with numerous submarine tours.
The visit would expose the vessel to North Korean or Chinese monitoring and they “could use the knowledge to hold our submarines on deterrent patrols far away at risk,” Sadler said. The strategic messaging of support for South Korea “would be minimal” for the US “to take some significant risks to send such a boat that far forward,” he said.
(Updates with mention of nuclear posture review in fifth paragraph. A previous version of the story was corrected to show that the submarine carries 20 Trident missiles.)
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