A ROYAL Navy submariner who groped a colleague at Faslane while on bail for another sex attack has been locked up.
Jack Seviour, 25, preyed on the woman at accommodation at the naval base in Helensburgh, on March 23, 2023.
Seviour placed his hand underneath the top half of her clothing and groped her.
He later tried to place his hand inside her lower clothing which made the woman "freeze."
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".
Seviour 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 court heard that Seviour, of Plymouth, Devon, had been a weapons engineer submariner for five years.
Seviour and his colleague who was an engineer at Faslane were at an afterparty in the building where he stayed on site.
Seviour joined her on the couch, put his right arm around her back and his hand on her outer thigh.
Prosecutor Lauren Aitchison said: "Seviour decided to place his hand under her t-shirt."
He went on to grope the woman who stated that it "hurt for a couple of seconds".
Aitchison said: "He then moved his hand back down her side and he attempted to put his hand down the waistband of her trousers. She was frozen during this."
The woman initially fled to the toilet but went back and sat on the couch before she was joined again by Seviour.
Seviour asked her to lean forward – which she believed was so he could get a drink – however, he went on to grope her for "a couple of seconds".
A friend, who saw the woman the next day, described her as "sobbing" when she recounted what had happened to her.
The trial was told of an earlier incident when Seviour met a woman from 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.
Jurors heard how Seviour slapped her face three or four times and she told him no.
He then punched and spat on the woman's face.
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 asking for "round two".
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 face and body during consensual sex.
He also grabbed her by the throat, legs, arms and breasts during intercourse on another occasion. The woman was left bruised.
Seviour also called the woman a "s**t".
Seviour claimed to jurors that his victims' evidence had been "fabricated" and all three woman 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."
