Army’s response to complaint by Jaysley Beck, 19, played a part in her suicide in Cumbria in 2021, inquest finds

A teenage soldier was sexually assaulted by a senior colleague and subject to an onslaught of unwelcome sexual attention from her line manager in the months before she was found dead, a coroner has concluded.

Nicholas Rheinberg, assistant coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, concluded that the way the army handled 19-year-old gunner Jaysley Beck’s complaint about the alleged assault was handled “played more than a contributory part in her death.”

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/20/teenage-soldier-jaysley-beck-sexually-assaulted-coroner-concludes