The head of the Army today apologised to the family of a soldier killed by a defective vehicle – after accepting a formal reprimand for health and safety failings.
Private Jethro Watson-Pickering, 23, died of catastrophic head injuries while driving a Scimitar light tank in a training exercise on Salisbury Plain five years ago.
Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Roly Walker said: ‘We failed him and those who loved him.’
The fault-prone gun barrel of Pte Watson-Pickering’s vehicle collided with a tree while he was driving ‘head-up’ – sending it into a ‘violent rotation’ towards the soldier, of First Battalion The
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