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Navy also operates nine amphibious assault ships that can deploy aircraft.

He was later arrested and accused of assaulting two other women on the same day.

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The sentence of an Army sergeant jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage soldier who later took her own life could be reviewed.

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He separately admitted a relatively minor charge of assaulting a man in public, receiving a conditional discharge plus an order to pay the victim £100 in compensation.

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Before trial, prosecutors had faced complications getting an assault charge to stick.

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