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| A Royal Navy petty officer has been found guilty of raping a female colleague on board a warship. | A Royal Navy petty officer has been found guilty of raping a female colleague on board a warship. |
| Chief Petty Officer Phillip Coates, 30, from Devon, was found guilty of raping the 24-year-old rating while at sea in the Mediterranean last year. | Chief Petty Officer Phillip Coates, 30, from Devon, was found guilty of raping the 24-year-old rating while at sea in the Mediterranean last year. |
| Coates had told a court martial at HMS Nelson, Portsmouth, he had consensual sex with his colleague. | Coates had told a court martial at HMS Nelson, Portsmouth, he had consensual sex with his colleague. |
| This is believed to be the first time a navy petty officer has been prosecuted for raping a female sailor. | |
| The court martial heard how the married medical assistant had followed his victim into a small room on the ship after kissing on the ship's quarterdeck during a barbecue. | |
| Therapy session | |
| Coates had removed the woman's clothes before raping her on a bunk. | |
| The following day, the victim had been found in a "visibly distressed state" and "sobbing her heart out", the court martial was told. | |
| Medical examinations after the initial report found she had minor bruising and some injuries and had a blood alcohol level more than twice the drink drive limit. | |
| But it was not until two months after the attack, when victim attended a therapy session, using a controversial psychotherapy technique called Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing that she recalled details of the assault. | |
| Coates, who had only been married for eight months, was arrested shortly afterwards. |