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Deepcut's new scandal: how a mystery death has reopened a 20-year-old wound
Sean Benton, 20; Cheryl James, 18; Geoff Gray, 17, and James Collinson, also 17, were all on guard duty at the time of their deaths. In each case, the army concluded that the young soldiers had taken their own lives.It was a conclusion that their grieving families could never accept, leading to a protracted process of inquests, investigations and reviews, which revealed evidence of horrific bullying, abuse and negligence at Deepcut – and chronic failings in the investigations by both the Army and Surrey police.The incidents at the camp became a national scandal, the subject of innumerable newspaper investigations and television documentaries.
