Ipswich Crown Court

SUTTON HEATH: A Suffolk soldier who admitted to police that he had “flashed” at women has told a jury he lied because he felt “pressurised”.

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Vincent Lunn, a Corporal based with 23 Engineer Regiment at Rock Barracks near Woodbridge, said he made admissions during police interviews because he had been
following advice given to him during Army training on interrogation by the enemy.

He said he had been told “if you feel pressurised and want to get out you tell them everything they need to know.”

Lunn, who has been in the Army for 23 years, said that during
interviews following his arrest he had felt pressurised by a male police officer who he described as being “a bit forceful”.

He said he had felt “extremely stressed” and had felt uncomfortable about intimate questions asked by a woman police officer about his
sexual relationship with his wife.

He said he had decided to admit to “flashing” even though he was
innocent of the offences.

“Maybe I should have held out but my training told me to get out of there,” said Lunn.

Lunn, 43, of Sutton Heath, has denied four offences of indecent exposure on April 6, June 3, June 17 and July 4 last year.

Robert Sadd, prosecuting, has alleged that Lunn deliberately
indecently exposed himself to four women.

Three women, including a
woman in her 70s, have alleged
they saw a man “flashing” at
them while they were at Sutton Heath and another woman
claimed she saw a man “flashing”
at her at a picnic area at Martlesham.

Lunn told the court that on the day of one of the alleged offences he had been working in the armoury at the barracks and said he didn’t own a pair of dark blue work trousers worn by the man who was “flashing”.

He accepted going to a picnic site at Martlesham on June 3 after a shopping trip to Tesco but denied “flashing” at a woman. He said he had got out of his car to urinate and had heard someone say: “Can you take that away I’m trying to eat my lunch.”

Lunn said he hadn’t replied and had driven off.

He said that on June 17 when he was alleged to have “flashed” at a passenger in a car he had been
with his wife and children
preparing to go to a Christening in Derbyshire.

He said that on the last occasion when he was alleged to have “flashed” at a woman at around 8am he had been at home waking his wife and children up after they had overslept.

The trial continues today.