‘YOU’VE GOT A BIG ENOUGH SEX DRIVE FOR A THREESOME’
LESBIAN NAVY MEDIC GIRL PESTERED STRAIGHT BOSS, COURT MARTIAL HEARS
A FEMALE Royal Navy Commander bombarded a married senior officer with lesbo love messages, praising her “heart and sex drive” as being “big enough” for a three-way relationship, a court martial heard.
Commander Sally-Anne Bagnall is accused of harassing her boss, Surgeon Capt Elizabeth Crowson, by launching a relentless “romantic pursuit” despite being repeatedly rejected.
Feelings
Cdr Bagnall insisted the married Captain was “in denial about her sexuality” and was “suppressing her true feelings about her” as she endeavoured to start a relationship with her.
She “refused” to accept that Capt Crowson wasn’t gay and sent her texts about her “sex drive” as well as one that said: “Your heart is big enough for two adults in this threesome,” and “I want to commit to you”.
Capt Crowson branded 51-year-old Cdr Bagnall “nutty” after she claimed she was secretly using “codes” in work emails to give her “hidden sexual messages”.
It was also heard Cdr Bagnall “tricked” an admin worker into giving her Capt Crowson’s home address and sent her cards during the alleged harassment in autumn 2018.
Cdr Bagnall is accused of harassing the married mother-of-three while the two medics worked at the Defence Primary Health Care HQ in DMS Whittington, Staffs.
At Bulford Military Court, Wiltshhire, Prosecutor Wing Cdr Michael Saunders said the pair’s work relationship became “hostile” so they planned to meet socially to “clear the air”.
Wg Cdr Saunders said: “During conversations which were supposed to be to clear the air to improve the working relationship, Bagnall persistently said Capt Crowson was suppressing her true feelings about her and was in denial about her sexuality, despite being married.”
The prosecutor also read Cdr Bagnall’s messages to the alleged victim.
One said: “I want to commit to you, feel the same way as you. Love and want you to know this now, please don’t be silent with me.”
Another said: “It’s a triangle of love – a three I can accept that, I’m the other. Your heart is big/ strong enough for two adults in this threesome, but not in the same bed/ place... A hippy, unconventional way.”
One said: “Big enough heart and sex drive, I should say.”
Giving evidence, Capt Crowson said that Cdr Bagnall confronted her with annotated work emails that she’d sent to others, with her Cc’d in, circling grammatical and spelling errors.
Cdr Bagnall insisted Capt Crowson’s misspelling of “regional” meant “vaginal”, the phrase “get in touch” meant she apparently wanted to touch Cdr Bagnall, and the word “involved” was code for her wanting to be involved with her.
Capt Crowson, giving evidence, said: “I felt scared and frightened. What it showed me was that anything I said could be entirely misconstrued and this left me vulnerable to whatever nutty behaviour might come my way.”
Capt Crowson, who had initially met with Cdr Bagnall at a Costa to repair their working relationship, said her junior “got the wrong end of the stick” when she began harassing her.
Conflict
She said: “Conversations about my marriage would then veer towards her assertion that tensions in my marriage were due to me being in internal conflict about my sexuality.
“Initially she was just exploring whether I was having difficulties about my sexuality but as it progressed it became clear she was presenting herself as a potential romantic suitor.
“She thought I was confused and in denial about my sexuality, she thought I was interested in her and she said she was available and willing to engage the relationship.
“She got the wrong end of the stick completely.
“I was always very clear about my sexuality – I’ve never had any leanings in that direction whatsoever.
“She refused to accept my assertions I was not gay or looking to start a romantic relationship with her, or to accept them no matter how clearly I stated them.
“It caused me a huge amount of distress, I was bewildered and perplexed as to how she had drawn the conclusions that she had.
“The more I rebuffed her, the less she would hear them, and that caused me huge distress.”
Cdr Bagnall, now of HMS Nelson in Portsmouth, Hants, denies harassment.
The trial continues.