Army missed opportunities to prevent cadet's suicide at Sandringham
Olivia Perks, 21, was found hanged in her room at the elite military training school in Berkshire in February 2019.
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Olivia Perks, 21, was found hanged in her room at the elite military training school in Berkshire in February 2019.
In february 2019 after fearing she might be expelled for spending the night in an instructor's room. coroner alison mccormick found the army missed opportunities to get the 21—year—old mental health support before the incident. and failed to pass on mental health risk assessments further up the chain of command. major—general zac stenning, who took over as commandant at sandhurst in 2022, said he was sorry for the "�*systemic and individualfailings�* which led to her death. live now to our correspondent, duncan kennedy who was at the inquest this afternoon. duncan take us through som...
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