SNS GroupA Royal Navy submariner who groped a colleague at Faslane while on bail for another sex attack has been convicted.
Jack Seviour, 25, preyed on the woman at accommodation at the naval base in Helensburgh on March 23, 2023.
Seviour also committed sex attacks on two other women between January 2022 and February 2023.
He was claimed to have recorded one of the attacks on his mobile and later described his actions as “rapey”.
The court heard that Seviour, of Plymouth, Devon, had been a weapons engineer submariner for five years.
He was able to carry on working for the Royal Navy despite being bailed for one of the attacks before striking again at Faslane.
Seviour was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court of three sexual assaults.
The trial was told of an earlier incident when Seviour met a woman from the dating app Tinder at her student accommodation in Glasgow’s Townhead.
The pair had sex, but Seviour carried out sex acts which she did not consent to and punched and spat on her face.
Ms Aitchison added: “The woman told you how she believed that he may have been recording her on his mobile, and she asked him to put it down and stop.
“She had enough of telling him no and to stop, so she told him to get out.”
The woman – who was shocked – received a message the following day from Seviour.
Ms Aitchison said: “She told him no and reminded him what he had done to her, and his response was ‘that is rapey behaviour’.
“He offered to buy her flowers and coffee.”
A third woman told the court that she had also met Seviour on Tinder and went to her student accommodation also in Townhead.
She claimed that Seviour spat on her and grabbed her leaving her bruised.
Seviour claimed to jurors that his victims’ evidence had been “fabricated” and all three women had lied.
Iain Smith, defending, told the court after the verdict: “He has been told that if he is convicted he will lose his job.”
Sentence was deferred pending background reports until next month by Sheriff Louise Arrol KC.
She said: “This was a course of conduct over 14 months on three women.
“You are no longer a suitable candidate for bail and you will be remanded in custody.”
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