‘Army veteran groped woman’s bottom for a dare’

The founder of an Army veterans charity groped a woman’s bottom at an awards event for a dare, a court heard. Timothy Evers, 54, said he was ‘checking if the woman had knickers’ on when she posed for a picture with him at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square in Mayfair, it was said. The former Royal Engineer, who founded Sapper Support in 2014, denies sexual assault. The woman said she had not drunk when Evers approached her and asked…