THE MINISTRY of Justice will look into the strangling of a British woman by a US fighter pilot, a minister announced on Friday.

Academic Sarah Steele recently spoke of a “distressing and degrading” experience with the US military justice system after pilot Jacob Wulfson assaulted her in Cambridge three years ago.

The airman was tried by US air force prosecutors for the attack, which took place on British soil in late 2023.

Justice minister Jake Richards told BBC Radio 4’s Today it was a “really serious case,” adding he would “make sure that [the MoJ is] looking into the details of this.”

He said: “There are issues around military courts, whether that is in America or indeed our own, and how that interplays with our criminal courts and our civil courts.”

The 32-year-old US captain’s court martial was heard in April at RAF Lakenheath, when he was convicted of strangling an intimate partner but found not guilty of sexual assault.