DETECTIVES investigating the apparent suicide of a teenage squaddie
failed to eliminate her two lovers as possible killers, an inquest was
told yesterday.
Former Army privates Paul
Wilkinson, 38, and Jim Carr-Minns, 39, should have been quizzed until
they were ruled out of any involvement in Private Cheryl James’s death
at Deepcut Barracks in 1995.
Murder police should also have made more efforts to identify an unknown white male seen in the area around the time Pte James died.
The 18-year-old from Llangollen in
north Wales was found dead at the barracks with a single gunshot wound
to her head. She was the second of four young recruits to die in
suspicious circumstances at the Army base in Surrey between 1995 and
2002.
An inquest into her death recorded an open verdict in less than hour. Her grieving parents Des, 66, and Doreen, 64, pushed for Surrey police to review the investigation in 2002 after hearing how military chiefs had recorded the death as suicide weeks before the coroner heard the case.
For more detail Police failed to ‘probe lovers’ over death of soldier Cheryl James at Deepcut Barracks
Murder police should also have made more efforts to identify an unknown white male seen in the area around the time Pte James died.
An inquest into her death recorded an open verdict in less than hour. Her grieving parents Des, 66, and Doreen, 64, pushed for Surrey police to review the investigation in 2002 after hearing how military chiefs had recorded the death as suicide weeks before the coroner heard the case.
For more detail Police failed to ‘probe lovers’ over death of soldier Cheryl James at Deepcut Barracks
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