
Defence Secretary John Healey said there is “new determination” to ensure the military does not fail women after a sergeant was jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage soldier who later took her own life.
The mother of Jaysley Beck, 19, who died in her barracks at Larkhill Camp, Wiltshire, in 2021, said young women should not join the Army as the armed forces had still not done enough to protect recruits.