British navy members accused of sexually assaulting woman ask for change in bail
Posted Jun 30, 2015 08:03:49 AM.
Last Updated Jun 30, 2015 02:58:59 PM.
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HALIFAX — A preliminary inquiry for four British sailors charged with sexual assaulting a woman in Halifax has been scheduled for five days next April in provincial court.
Simon Radford, Joshua Finbow, Craig Stoner and Darren Smalley were in Nova Scotia to play in a hockey tournament with local Armed Forces personnel when they were arrested in April.
The Crown says the members of the British navy participated in a “group sexual assault” on April 10 at CFB Shearwater.
The four members are out on bail after being transferred from a Halifax military base to one in Alberta.
A provincial court judge granted a change in bail conditions last month, allowing them to move to CFB Suffield where there is a British army training unit.
Outside court, Crown attorney Scott Morrison said three of the men, Radford, Finbow and Stoner, have applied for changes to their bail conditions to allow them to return to the United Kingdom to work.
Smalley was the only one of the four men to appear in court today.
Morrison says the Crown will oppose the application at a court hearing in August.
