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Young women should not join the Army, the mother of a teenage soldier who took her own life after being sexually assaulted by a superior has said.

Leighann McCready said the armed forces had still not done enough to protect recruits after her daughter Jaysley Beck was found hanged in her barracks in Larkhill Camp, Wiltshire , in 2021.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Evidence has shown through our own daughter that the protection is not there.

“And until policies are properly changed, I wouldn’t recommend anybody joining the Army because they protect themselves

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