The HMNZ Canterbury at Devonport Naval Base in Auckland. Photo: NZ Defence Force The 27-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, denies sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and two charges of indecent assault. Prosecutor Sam McMullan said the Navy able rate pursued two women in an apartment after a night out during a tour of duty in Victoria, British Columbia in August last year. "Given the similarities between those two incidents, either they both happened, or [the defendant] has to be the victim of a remarkable coincidence for both of those two things to be false. Lightning doesn't strike twice," he said.