A junior colleague who has accused a married British Army officer of forcibly raping her has told a US court martial that she was also too drunk to consent to sex.
Lieutenant Colonel Benedict Tomkins, 49, of Defence, Equipment and Support, is appearing at the first trans-Atlantic court martial accused of attacking the woman after a drink-heavy United Nations conference in Uganda.
The woman says the high-ranking officer, who has completed two tours of Afghanistan, entered her room at the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala under the pretences of working on a presentation together on the night of January 7 2015.
She claims that although her memory is "hazy" he instead approached her and "instantly" unzipped her dress and forced her on to the bed after she spurned his advances.
Peter Glesner, cross-examining the complainant at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Wednesday, said the officer's account is that the sex was consensual and it followed kissing and foreplay.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, she said: "I know I was too drunk to consent to any of that, if any of that happened."
Mr Glesner replied: "You were sober enough to collaborate with a senior British officer on a presentation but too drunk to consent to sex?"
Mr Glesner, at the first ever court martial to be held in both the UK and the US, accused her of "exaggerating" her drunkenness.
The court previously heard that Tomkins believes her complaint is "malicious" and that he told investigators the sex was consensual, but added: "It wasn't rose petals or cupid's arrow, it was fairly animal."
Tomkins, an officer of the Rifles regiment, based at Abbey Wood, near Bristol, denies one count of rape between January 6-9 2015.
The trial, in front of Judge Advocate General Jeff Blackett and a jury of seven Army officers, will head back to the UK in Bulford, Wiltshire, on Monday after the prosecution's witnesses.
The complainant accused Tomkins of trying to "back out" of his actions in emotional emails he sent her in the weeks that followed.
Tomkins wrote to her asking if she used him to "scratch an itch", adding: "I thought you were something a bit special."
She told the court she feels his messages were an attempt to roll back on his actions.
"I know what happened was wrong - it was a rape - and it seemed like he was trying to back out of it at that point," she said.
She also refuted Mr Glesner's claim that she was communicating "warmly" with Tomkins between the incident and reporting it.
The complainant said she was being "sarcastic" when she replied saying a jokey email Tomkins wrote had made her laugh and that she always replied as curtly as possible.
She previously told investigators she feared reporting the incident or making a scene could jeopardise her career.
"The idea of being a woman in a man's world, you don't want to raise issues, you want to be professional and do your job," she said.