Army colonel, 57, accused of sexually assaulting female officer in Norwegian ...

A female Army officer told a court martial of her horror when a Colonel 'ordered' her to give him a goodnight kiss and then rubbed her backside in a room full of other ranks.

The woman has accused her former boss, Colonel Martin Toney, 57, of sexual assault in a function room at the Trolltun Guesthouse hotel in the ski resort of Dombås, Norway, when Col Toney was a lieutenant colonel. 

She claimed the assault happened during the final evening of the Army Medical Service's Nordic Ski Championships in December 2012.

Challenged about her memories of what happened with Col Toney, who has 36 years service in the British Army, she said: 'I will always remember the feeling of his hand upon me.'

The court martial heard that the alleged incident happened during a drinks party after an all-ranks meal of Scandinavian delicacies to round off the ski training camp.

The former major, who cannot be named, claims she was 'completely sober' during the festivities because alcohol was very expensive and not many people were drinking.

After an hour or so she said wanted 'to politely leave to go and pack' and Col Toney, sitting alone in a conference chair, was the most senior officer in the room, if not the only other officer.

She said: 'So out of politeness I went to say goodbye to him. He said, "Give me a kiss goodbye," and I felt completely flummoxed by that.

'We did not have the type of relationship where I would give him a kiss goodbye.

'It was very much phrased as a command.

'I thought it would be rude not to so I bent over to give him a cheek to cheek kiss goodbye. But he turned and met it and kissed his lips.

'He then put his hand on my bottom and rubbed it all over with a fair amount of force. It was not a fleeting touch. This was a thorough feel of my bottom.'

She was wearing a knitted cotton Nordic style dress which was warm but 'not that thick'.