The British Army sought to suppress a report revealing that female soldiers were locking themselves in their bedrooms at night to avoid potential sexual assault from drunken male colleagues, it has been reported.
Professor Anthony King, who was commissioned by the army to write the report, found that there was an “almost ubiquitous” spree of door-knocking, when men banged on the doors of women’s rooms in barracks demanding sex.
In one incident, a drunk soldier kicked and punched a woman’s door for two hours, shouting “I’m not going to hurt you”. The woman filmed the incident but, because she decided to remain quiet, the man in question was spared disciplinary action.
In his 2022 report, “To Fight and Win: A Cultural Audit of the British Army”, King also reported instances of male soldiers sending unsolicited “dick pics”, women being called sexist names, the solicitation of female colleagues by senior officers and cases of sexual assault.
Leighann McCready, the mother of Jaysley Beck, who died at Larkhill Camp, Wiltshire, in December 2021
