Joape Kotobalavu, 29, forced himself on the terrified teenage victim in October 2022.
A drunk Fijian soldier carried out a sickening sex attack on a teenage girl as they traveled on the top deck of a bus.
The court heard Kotobalavu is a serving soldier with the Royal Regiment of Scotland 2nd Battalion and is currently stationed at Dreghorn Barracks in Edinburgh. The serviceman is a Fijian national who has been in the UK since 2019 and though currently suspended he was due to be deployed to Estonia next year.
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She said: "He was drunk and very much bigger than me, I didn't want to aggravate him. I was too scared that if I said stop or no, you just don't know where it was going to go. I was scared he would follow me. I look back on it and wish I had done more to stop it. I felt disgusted with myself."
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