A STUDENT was forced to perform sex acts on an RAF engineer during a drunken game of truth or dare, a court heard.

Jonathon Coundon told the 16-year-old boy it was the “sort of stuff they did in the RAF ” before telling him to “get on his knees”, Lewes Crown Court was told.

The 25-year-old aircraft engineer is standing trial accused of oral rape after meeting the victim in Lanzarote and buying him drinks. The student, who goes to school in Sussex but cannot be identified, was on a family holiday when he met Coundon and other members of an RAF swimming team.

The boy, who has Asperger’s syndrome, told Coundon it was his last night on holiday and that he wanted to meet a girl and drink but could not get served at the bar, jurors heard. The court heard Coundon was wearing a cow fancy dress costume.

Prosecutor James Lofthouse said Coundon, then 23, told the victim he was “in the RAF” and could buy him drinks, offering to be his “wingman”.

Witnesses described the pair as “inseparable” for the rest of the night as they played drinking games. The boy drank seven pints of beer and six Jaegerbombs, the court heard.

Mr Lofthouse said: “The victim said how he loved truth or dare and had never refused a dare.”

He said Coundon dared the victim to kiss him, strip naked, touch each other and perform sex acts on one another.

They then went to a secluded part of a beach where Mr Lofthouse said the “dares became commands”, adding: “The victim did not want to do what he was told but felt he had no choice. He submitted to it. He felt compelled to do so.”

The victim’s mother recalled how she found her son curled up asleep the next morning, and his mood and behaviour was “noticeably different from normal”.

Now 19, he first told his girlfriend about the incident, at first claiming he had been involved with a girl on holiday before then revealing he had been raped by a man, Mr Lofthouse said.

Coundon, based at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, denied "every single allegation of sexual activity", the court heard.

  • Jonathon Coundon has since been acquitted of the charge. A previous version of this article referred to Mr Coundon as an officer rather than an aircraft engineer. The Argus apologises for this typographical error.