6 UK soldiers accused of gang rape

London - Six British army officers appeared in court yesterday accused of gang raping a student in a drunken orgy.

London - Six British army officers appeared in court yesterday accused of gang raping a student in a drunken orgy.

The six - two captains, two lieutenants and two officer cadets aged 20 to 26 - had undressed to share a sauna with two women, Oxford crown court heard.

The men allegedly later went off with a 23-year-old student to a bedroom at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham, Wiltshire, where the student was allegedly repeatedly raped.

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