FOUR soldiers who smuggled a teenager into their headquarters at Halton training camp for sex have been reprimanded at a court martial. The disciplinary hearing heard how the officers took an 18-year-old girl back to the camp after meeting her and her sister out drinking in Morecambe. Captain Mark Walker, 27, Corporal Peter MacKay, 27, Cpl Kevin McHenry, 26, - all of the Royal Anglican Regiment and Cpl Thomas Dick, 29, - of the Royal Signals - admitted conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline.
They had been in North Lancashire after training with recruits in the Lake District.
The incident came to light when the girl complained to the police although they decided to take no further action.
The Colchester court heard how the girl went to the Halton camp in a minibus with the soldiers and began kissing and cuddling with Mackay.
Walker was dismissed from the Army with disgrace; Mackay was reduced to the ranks and dismissed from the Army; McHenry was reduced to the rank of Lance Corporal and Cpl Dick was reduced to the ranks.
Judge Advocate Bayliss said: "The court wishes to make it as clear as it lies in our power that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated in the armed forces."
The disgrace comes just weeks after the notorious sauna-sex trial of six offices from the Royal Military College of Science.
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