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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

Ex-army sergeant major who sexually assaulted teenage soldier months before her death is jailed

A former senior army sergeant major has been jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage soldier who later took her own life.

Warrant Officer Michael Webber, who was 39 at the time, last month pleaded guilty at the Court Martial Centre in Bulford, Wiltshire, to assaulting Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck in an attack that left her “severely frightened” and feeling “powerless and betrayed”, according to her family.

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