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Coroner calls for better protection for Army vehicles
A CORONER has called for military vehicles to be better protected after hearing how four soldiers, including a Catterick medic, were killed in Iraq when a bomb exploded under their vehicle.
The soldiers - one a close friend of Prince William - were travelling in a Warrior vehicle, which was armour-protected on the top and the sides but not on the bottom.
The device was buried in a road in Basra and detonated as the Warrior passed over it.
Corporal Kris O'Neill, 27, from Catterick, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and Second Lieutenant Joanna Dyer, 24, who was at Sandhurst military academy with William, died in the blast on April 5 last year.
Two teenager soldiers, Private Eleanor Dlugosz, 19, from Southampton, also of the Royal Army Medical Corps; and Kingsman Adam James Smith, 19, from Liverpool, of 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment were also killed.
Recording verdicts of unlawful killing, David Masters, coroner for Wiltshire, told an inquest in Trowbridge he would be meeting with Armed Forces Minster Bob Ainsworth later this week to recommend the armour issue was dealt with speedily.
Cpl O'Neill's family later echoed the coroner's comments and appealed to the Government to spend more on defence for troops.
Full story in Wednesday's Yorkshire Post.
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