Former Bermuda Housing Corporation manager and Regiment Major Glenn Brangman has appealed his sentence for sexually assaulting a male clerk.Shade Subair told Supreme Court that her client’s three-and-a-half year sentence was manifestly excessive.The 61-year-old was convicted of four counts of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old last year. His victim cannot be identified for legal reasons.Prosecutor Nicole Smith argued that the sentence given by magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo was appropriate given the emotional harm inflicted.Ms Subair said that the sentence should not have exceeded a 12-month period of incarceration as Brangman had no prior convictions and a long history of community service.Only one of the counts involved any degree of violence and each of the four lasted short periods of time, she argued.The court heard that Brangman touched the victim’s genitals on three occasions and on the fourth, pushed him onto a bed and sexually assaulted himMs Subair said people convicted of more serious offences against children had received lesser sentences.She specifically noted the conviction of 64-year-old Terrance Pantry, jailed for three years for repeatedly molesting a young girl over several years.Asked by Chief Justice Ian Kawaley if she believed Brangman was given a harsher sentence because of the homosexuality involved, Ms Subair said: “Absolutely.”Ms Smith argued that the assaults could have been more traumatic for the victim, because he was heterosexual.She stressed that while there was no threat of physical harm, the victim felt psychologically trapped by the defendant who was in a position of power.“[The victim] had a history. He was trying to turn his life around. He didn’t believe anyone would believe him. He just felt himself boxed in,” Ms Smith said. “That’s the vulnerability issue, and that’s the aggravating factor. That also goes to the premeditation; the selection of the victim to perpetuate the crime.”Ms Smith acknowledged that Mr Brangman had a previously clean record. She said the aggravating factors in the case far outweighed the mitigating factors in Brangman’s favour.The Chief Justice reserved his judgement until a later date.Brangman is also to appeal his conviction in Supreme Court. A previous appeal against his conviction failed.