He shed a tear as he carried the coffin of Army pal Lee Rigby, ruthlessly killed by terrorists. And the family of tragic veteran Dean Corbett tell how his life spiralled out of control after the Woolwich horror.
He and Lee were “inseparable” as they fearlessly served together in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Dean’s family paid tribute to him as he was laid to rest on Friday – after apparently taking his own life following years of struggling with mental ill-health.
Relatives said the dad of one had been left scarred by the horrors of his time in Afghanistan. And he never got over the loss of Lee, who was butchered and beheaded at 25 by two attackers near their regiment’s barracks in south-east London in 2013.
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