The woman spoke out via the Prospect trade union after reading reports in November 2023 that 60 senior female officials had made allegations of sexual assault, harassment and abuse in the MoD in a letter to permanent secretary David Williams.
She told Prospect that she had experienced her first sexual assault a year after joining the MoD at a social work event, where a male colleague squeezed her breasts in front of other colleagues.
As reported by website Civil Service World, a further incident took place some years later, where at the married quarters of an MoD couple, she felt a man’s hand stroking her left thigh – at one point with his wife present in the room. A few weeks later, the same man attempted to ply her with alcohol.
