{"id":274619,"date":"2026-02-09T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:15:08","slug":"senior-navy-officer-allegedly-encouraged-junior-officer-to-kiss-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274619\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior navy officer allegedly encouraged junior officer to kiss them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTHANL_Screenshot_2026_02_09_123100_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"793\" alt=\"Judge William Hastings presiding over the trial of a senior Navy officer, for their conduct during an overseas operation in Fiji in 2023.\u00a0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nJudge William Hastings presiding over the trial of a senior Navy officer, for their conduct during an overseas operation in Fiji in 2023.\u00a0<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/Lucy Xia\n<\/p>\n<p>A senior navy officer is facing a Court Martial over their behaviour during an operation in Fiji in March 2023, where they allegedly encouraged a junior officer to kiss them.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is sitting at the Devonport Navy Base in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>The military prosecutors have charged the senior officer with behaviour likely to prejudice service discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Judge William Hastings has declined an application for interim name suppression, saying that the threshold for extreme hardship for the defendant and undue hardship for their family members hasn&#8217;t been met.<\/p>\n<p>However, the defendant&#8217;s name cannot be published yet pending an appeal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge William Hastings presiding over the trial of a senior Navy officer, for their conduct during an overseas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-274619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}