A NUCLEAR submarine officer has been charged with multiple sex attacks on subordinates over a decade.
Lt Cdr John Cursiter is set to face trial over a drug fuelled attack on a male junior sailor alleged to have happened in 2022.
At the time he was deputy commander of the nuclear sub HMS Vanguard, which carries Trident 2 doomsday missiles.
The charges included illegal imprisonment and possession of Class A cocaine.
Cursiter, of Balloch, Dunbartonshire, is also also accused “sexual assault by penetration” and sexual touching on a junior rate in 2013.
The older allegations were presented to Catterick Court Martial on Monday.
It is the latest sex scandal to rock the Royal Navy after its former chief Ben Key was sacked and stripped of his titles for romping with a subordinate.
Three submarine captains were also stripped of their OBEs over sex and bullying claims in June.
A training base was locked down in May amid a revenge porn probe.
And Lieutenant Commander Gary Fletcher was convicted of drunkenly assaulting a comrade at the nuclear deterrent base HMNB Clyde.
Cursiter attended the hearing by videolink and entered formal not guilty pleas to all six charges.
Judge Advocate Edward Legard told him: “You must attend and before that date provide a written response to the Crown’s case.”
In 2011 he told The Sun that his husband had ended their marriage as they “had been separated too long”.
At the time he was serving as a navigator on the Trafalgar class sub HMS Tireless.
The Royal Navy said: “We’re closely monitoring the legal proceedings.”
