An SAS medic who saved hundreds of soldiers’ lives on battlefields killed himself after his pleas for help with his own mental trauma were ignored.
Staff Sergeant Jamie Ferguson made a video recording just moments before his death in which he said: “I asked for help but no one was listening, they didn’t understand.” The 36-year-old veteran of multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan – one of the Army’s most experienced combat medics – shot himself after making the recording inside a military base.
His death 11 days ago was the third military suicide at the same base in a year and one of five in a single week this month.
The grim toll has raised fears of a death spike caused by lockdown and prompted cross-party demands from MPs for action. One
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