A US fighter pilot strangled a woman in England. Why did it end in a ‘degrading’ military trial?
Jacob Wulfson’s fellow airmen decided his fate after a court martial at RAF Lakenheath – a distressing week for Sarah Steele, the academic he assaulted
Jacob Wulfson’s fellow airmen decided his fate after a court martial at RAF Lakenheath – a distressing week for Sarah Steele, the academic he assaulted Explainer: how the US bypasses British courts to try its military over crimes in the UK When Sarah Steele woke up on the morning of 2 December 2023, she found herself in a pool of cold water in a bathtub.
She was naked and in the apartment of an American fighter pilot she had met in person for the first time the night before. She was confused. Her head hurt, and so did her neck. This was the account Steele, a British academic, provided to prosecutors.
They later accused the pilot, Capt Jacob Wulfson, of drugging and strangling Steele in his apartment in the east of England, and penetrating her vagina
with his penis without her consent. Continue reading...
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