Cpl Joshua Hoole, 26, died within an hour of collapsing on a hot day during an annual fitness test (AFT) in Brecon, south Wales, in July 2016. The tragedy came three years after three army reservists suffered fatal heat illness during an SAS selection march in the Brecon Beacons. On Tuesday, the inquest at Birmingham coroner’s court heard from another soldier, Cpl George Knight, who collapsed earlier on the same march. He claimed that in July 2018 he was on a classroom course with Capt Colin Newfer, who had run the march in which Hoole died. Knight alleged Newfer asked him to help change witness statements made by other soldiers about how he – Knight – came to collapse in a hedgerow on the day of the fatal march.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2019 14:37 UTC