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Soldier lay dead in barrack room for 3 weeks

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L/Cpl Mongan lay dead in his room for 3 weeks without anyone checking on him. He was due to move to another unit, with his old unit thinking he'd gone and his new unit thinking he was still at his old unit. He was subjected to racial bullying due to being of Irish traveller descent. The Army refuse to say how he died.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/soldier-lay-dead-barracks-three-21458992
 
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His widow: “I can’t help thinking he could have been seriously ill for several days in his room unconscious but no one bothered to check, even though someone must have known he was missing,” she told her friend.

The father of her 3 kids would surely have more contact with those kids than greater than every three weeks. Perhaps she should feel a little more remorse about not having more contact?
 
Bodies whilst decomposing start to smell extremely unpleasant after even just a few days and yet no-one noticed? Doesn’t say much about the state of the accommodation does it? What about ‘marching out’?
 
muttywhitedog said:
His widow: “I can’t help thinking he could have been seriously ill for several days in his room unconscious but no one bothered to check, even though someone must have known he was missing,” she told her friend.

The father of her 3 kids would surely have more contact with those kids than greater than every three weeks. Perhaps she should feel a little more remorse about not having more contact?
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They were seperated. Agree but it stilldoesn't take away the lack of a duty of care from the army.
 
In my time I inspected a couple of lineys rooms in the block that smelt like something had died in it...
 
justintime129 said:
They were seperated. Agree but it stilldoesn't take away the lack of a duty of care from the army.
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I know they were, but all the same, separated couples still need to communicate regularly when there are small children involved. I've not been in that position, but I'd like to think that if I had, I wouldn't go 3 weeks without speaking to my young kids, or their mother.
 
muttywhitedog said:
I know they were, but all the same, separated couples still need to communicate regularly when there are small children involved. I've not been in that position, but I'd like to think that if I had, I wouldn't go 3 weeks without speaking to my young kids, or their mother.
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Maybe she thought he was away doing his job and didn't want to involve the army
 
He was living in transit accommodation at that location. I do know of one transit block that due to poor design, permanently smelt of the ablutions. A constant throughput of individuals may have considered that any smell was someone else's problem, and that they were there for a short period only, and not worth reporting.

There does seem to be a comms breakdown between the losing and receiving units, all of which is likely to come to light at the inquest. The fact that that MOD can't tell his widow anything is because the investigation into his death is ongoing. Poor journalism throughout the article.
 
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