Warrant Officer Ian Duncan Harrison, a married father of two, was found guilty of 11 charges including acts of indecency, using insulting and provocative words and prejudicial conduct in court martial proceedings held at HMAS Albatross this week.

As well as formally dismissing WO Harrison from the ADF, the panel of three senior naval officers, overseen by Judge Advocate Brigadier Michael Cowen QC, sentenced him to 24 days jail, demoted him in rank to petty officer with seniority and ordered he pay a $6000 fine.

The panel heard in evidence over nine days that WO Harrison had grabbed a woman’s nipples, pinched a second on the bottom, showed another a picture of a penis on a mobile phone,  and also exposed his penis in various states of arousal on four occasions to a fourth woman while he was the Ship’s Warrant Officer, the highest of the navy’s non-commissioned officers, at Creswell at Jervis Bay, the home of the RAN’s Naval College.

The panel heard he had shown a woman a video of him having sex in what appeared to be naval office with a fellow member.

The panel also found the Harrison had called a fifth woman “a prostitute”

The incidents happened over a period from March 2015 and July 2017 at various locations around the base.

Victim impact statements from three of the five women were read to the panel in submissions by both the prosecution and defence over possible sentencing.

One of the victims, who can't be named for legal reasons, said the incidents had changed the way she trusted people, especially people in charge and in particular men.

She said she was an emotional wreck and often had to go home from work because she suffered anxiety and was “breaking down.”

The woman said she became “hyper alert”  and had become “self conscious about her breasts” after the incident.

She said now has trouble sleeping and some of her hair had fallen out due to stress.