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| Anne-Marie Ellement: Army corporals cleared of rape | Anne-Marie Ellement: Army corporals cleared of rape |
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| Two former army corporals have been cleared of raping a female colleague at a barracks in Germany. | Two former army corporals have been cleared of raping a female colleague at a barracks in Germany. |
| Jeremy Jones and Thomas Fulton, both 28, denied raping Cpl Anne-Marie Ellement, from Bournemouth, in 2009. | Jeremy Jones and Thomas Fulton, both 28, denied raping Cpl Anne-Marie Ellement, from Bournemouth, in 2009. |
| The men both insisted the sex with Ms Ellement, who died in 2011, was consensual. | The men both insisted the sex with Ms Ellement, who died in 2011, was consensual. |
| A seven-strong panel at the military tribunal in Bullford Bourt Martial Centre, Wiltshire, found the pair not-guilty after an eight-day trial. | A seven-strong panel at the military tribunal in Bullford Bourt Martial Centre, Wiltshire, found the pair not-guilty after an eight-day trial. |
| The panel heard that the men, who have since left the army, had engaged in a "threesome" with Cpl Ellement in the early hours of 20 November 2009 after a drinking session. | |
| Ms Ellement was later said to have been found nearly naked and crying outside her accommodation. | |
| 'Truly dishonourable' | |
| Following the verdicts, Judge Jeff Blackett told the defendants their conduct towards Cpl Ellement had been "disgraceful". | |
| He said: "This is not a moral judgment and I make no comment upon sexual practices involving more than two people. | |
| "But the way you treated Anne-Marie after your encounter was extremely unpleasant. | |
| "After engaging in sex, you effectively discarded her while you decided to go off to town without a thought for how she might be feeling or how she might get back to her accommodation safely. | |
| "For Mr Fulton to call her those very unpleasant names including the word 'slag' was truly dishonourable. | |
| "You may have grown up in the seven years since this incident and I hope you will never act in such an appalling way again." | |
| Mr Jones, formerly of Close Protection Unit Royal Military Police Operations Wing, and Mr Fulton, formerly of 174 Provost Company 3 Royal Military Police, were initially arrested on suspicion of rape but the case was dismissed. | |
| They were later charged with rape in 2015. They have been found not guilty of all charges by the court martial board. | |
| Cpl Ellement took her own life aged 30 at Bulford Barracks, near Salisbury, Wiltshire on 9 October 2011. |