Retired vice-admiral Edmundson sexually assaulted woman after advances rejected, crown charges

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Retired vice-admiral Haydn Edmundson realized the empty, docked naval ship he was aboard offered his last chance to make advances on a woman, and then sexually assaulted her when she didn’t respond, a crown attorney charged on Tuesday.

During cross-examination in an Ottawa courtroom, Assistant Crown Attorney John Ramsay said to Edmundson that on that day more than 30 years ago, when the ship that he and the complainant served on had docked at a U.S. naval base, he saw the complainant walk by his cabin and ordered her inside.

“That’s not true,” Edmundson said.

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Ramsay said to Edmundson that he then realized that with

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