A New Zealand Army officer convicted this year of indecently assaulting a female officer, has now been cleared of accusations he made inappropriate comments to another officer's partner.
Major Allan David Kinsella, 37, was found not guilty of disgraceful and indecent conduct, attempting to obstruct justice and doing an act likely to prejudice service discipline, at the military court at Trentham army base yesterday.
He was accused of making sexual advances to a fellow officer's wife-to-be and threatening to ruin the officer's career if she told anyone about the 2006 incident, The Dominion Post reported.
Kinsella denied that happened.
Judge Advocate Russell Johnson, who advised the five officers sitting on the court martial panel, said it was a case of "she said, he said".
The case was separate to one heard by the court in February, after which Kinsella had his rank reduced to major from lieutenant colonel.
He was severely reprimanded for indecently assaulting a female officer while she was involved in a training course on which he was an instructor.
The woman involved in that incident said Kinsella had tried to force himself on her after the pair had been drinking together at an officers' mess in March 2007.
Kinsella's rank and seniority was reduced retrospectively from February 26, 2004 - essentially wiping his credit for the last five years of service in the army.
He has been serving at defence headquarters pending the courts martial.
