Army’s delay in finding soldier’s body in barracks ‘unforgivable’ – widow

Lance Corporal Bernard Mongan, 33, whose body was discovered on January 23 2020 in the bedroom of his baracks at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire (Family Handout/PA) - (PA Media)

The widow of a soldier who was found dead in his barracks three weeks after he was last seen said she believes he “took his own life while in crisis” and criticised the delay in finding him as “unforgivable”.

Father-of-three Lance Corporal Bernard Mongan’s decomposing body was discovered on January 23 2020 in his bedroom at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.