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Brian Muyepa (pictured), 32, says he suffered severe non-freezing cold injuries after being left in wet boots for five hours after a training exercise in a Welsh tunnel in winter 2016.
An ex-soldier who claims a debilitating 'over-sensitivity to the cold' left him in crippling pain has been accused of a £3.7million compensation scam after he was filmed dancing at a barbecue. Brian Muyepa, 32, suffered the non-freezing cold injury after being left in wet boots for over five hours following a training exercise in Sennybridge, Wales, in 2016. He claimed the condition, also known as 'trench foot', resulted in crippling pain in his hands and feet, and he was discharged from the British Army in 2018. But while Ministry of Defence lawyers admit negligence, Mr Muyepa is now b...