A ROYAL Navy sailor from Stonehouse charged with sexual assault in Canada is expected to make a plea next month.
Craig Stoner, 24, is one of four Navy sailors charged with allegedly gang raping a 21-year-old Nova Scotia woman in the barracks at the Halifax-area military base on the evening of April 9.
Stoner is charged alongside fellow Navy sailors Simon Radford, Joshua Finbow, and Darren Smalley.
Lawyers representing them appeared before a court in Canada yesterday.
The case was adjourned to Dartmouth provincial court in Canada on June 30 for a plea hearing, to allow the defence to review the evidence, News 95.7 reports.
The case is scheduled to return to court on June 30 when the four men will enter pleas.
Stoner, 24, Smalley, 35, from Gosport, Finbow, 23, from Stockbridge, and Radford, 31, from Lower Gosport, were arrested after an alleged incident at CFB Shearwater, in Nova Scotia.
If found guilty they could each face fourteen years in prison.
All four remain on bail in Canada.
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