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Death at Deepcut

By: Jane MacSorley, Colin Sutton, John Battsek, Sarah Thomson
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Please note: This audio features sexual content, adult language, and references to suicide and violence that may be upsetting to some listeners. Discretion is advised.

Between 1995 and 2002 four young trainee soldiers were found dead at a military training camp outside London, Deepcut. The soldiers all died from gunshot wounds, all on guard duty. In each case the army quickly concluded the deaths were suicide.

But for the families, the official version of events just didn’t add up and so they all started to ask questions. Investigative journalist Jane MacSorley and retired detective chief inspector Colin Sutton join forces to investigate the deaths and try to find answers about what really happened at Deepcut.

After a year-long investigation the pair have uncovered shocking details about what life was like at the training camp. Interviews with former soldiers have painted a harrowing picture of emotional, physical and sexual abuse in an environment of apparent lawlessness.

Featuring exclusive interviews with family members, former army trainees, senior officers and forensic experts this investigation has uncovered new allegations of criminal activity and a shocking secret which has never been reported until now.

If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, please call the Samaritans on 116 123. This number is free to call, any time, from any phone.

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  • Prologue

    Prologue
    Jun 11 2021

    Please note: This audio features sexual content, adult language, and references to suicide and violence that may be upsetting to some listeners. Discretion is advised.

    Investigative journalist Jane MacSorley and retired detective chief inspector Colin Sutton join forces to investigate the deaths at Deepcut, a military training camp. This investigation has uncovered new allegations of criminal activity at Deepcut and a shocking secret which has never been reported until now.

    If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, please call the Samaritans on 116 123. This number is free to call, any time, from any phone.
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  • Ep 1: Sean

    Ep 1: Sean
    Jun 11 2021

    Please note: This audio features sexual content, adult language, and references to suicide and violence that may be upsetting to some listeners. Discretion is advised.

    Former recruits paint a dark picture of what life was like at Deepcut. Allegations of bullying, harassment and assault come to light and 20-year-old Sean Benton is found shot dead.
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  • Ep 2: James and Geoff

    Ep 2: James and Geoff
    Jun 11 2021

    Please note: This audio features sexual content, adult language, and references to suicide and violence that may be upsetting to some listeners. Discretion is advised.

    Seventeen-year-old James Collinson is found shot dead whilst on guard duty. Jane and Colin discuss the police investigation that followed and their discovery that another soldier, 17-year-old Geoff Gray had been found shot dead at Deepcut just six months earlier.

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cold and uncaring incompetence on the part of the MOD, the police, the government, coroners et al. A disturbing but probably necessary listen for anyone interested in the workings of this country's organisation's that are meant to serve and protect.

Shockingly

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An all too familiar tale of British cover-up and denial in the service of maintaining corrupt power structures. And the innocent victims and their poor families be damned.
A painful listen but worthy nonetheless

The story of a national disgrace

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So compelling, factually intriguing, sad, amazing how the institute army police closed information, so many people will be left let down

An eye opening

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honestly so scary and so off putting in the weirdest way. this stuff is still happening fyi

the British army are the biggest opps

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The podcast was great, narration was spot on. Being ex forces myself a feel i got a real understanding of it all. Thank you for the time and effort you have all put into it.

Great podcast

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This is a very interesting podcast, well researched, compelling and really distressing. It makes one fearful of any institution that allows bullies free rein!

It is such a sad thing to understand the level of fear that these young people experienced.

Well researched

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Terribly sad but very important to hear about the events there and what a disgraceful cover up it all is ,Maybe one day it will all come out and people will be held accountable,Feel sad for all involved.

Absolutely Shocking

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Very interesting content.Thoroughly researched and well presented. I listened straight through in one afternoon.

excellent account

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Excellent research, journalim and contributors. Harrowing but superbly and empathetically executed. I would highly recommend.

compelling

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Any ex British Army recruit from this era, myself included, knows that the things that seem to be shocking to the narrator / investigator were standard issue for new recruits. The British Army was and likely still is full of racism, abuse, bullies and predators. If you're half decent and have other options you leave. Many bullies only climb the ranks because the decent soldiers leave due the sheer banality of what being a squaddie is all about. I've painted grass green. I've been spat on by a screaming sergeant more times than I can remember. Hundreds of attempts at being bullied, countless fights, I've been punched in the face within 5 minutes of arriving in a new camp by a full screw who told me he owned me now... The only way out is to fight and be the grey man. If someone doesn't know if you've got what it takes to stab them in their sleep they leave you alone - any weakness and you're done for. Ive seen new recruits forced to drink bleach and urine, I've seen a black recruit chased around a square by guys in white sheets - He was the only black guy there and the corporals nicknamed him midnight. We had a group of squaddies on our camp who sexually assaulted a local German girl who was so drunk she was unconscious and they took pictures which they put up in their room.... they got a wrap on the knuckles from senior staff and the local girl was devastated, likely for life. There were deaths on many camps all over the world. I was in Germany and the UK in the Royal Signals from 97 to 2002. - at least one hanging whilst I was in Germany. Fights in the bars every weekend between each other, stabbings, glassings, and general assaults. There are good opportunities but you better be ready to fight for your own life before you ever dream of fighting for the benefit of someone else's.

Nothing new here.Young squaddies always got abused

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