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MoD calls soldier training deaths from heat exhaustion 'unacceptable'

The MoD has published its response to the damning report on the deaths of James Dunsby from Trowbridge and 2 others.

Earlier this year a coroner ruled that neglect played a part in the deaths of the three Army reservists, who collapsed during a 16-mile SAS test march.

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Soldier's widow says mistakes 'will be repeated' unless things change

Bryher Dunsby said her husband would have been Credit: ITV News

The widow of a soldier who died after an SAS training march has demanded that the Ministry of Defence accept responsibility for the failures which led to her husband's death.

As the coroner rules that James Dunsby died because of failings in how the training was organised and managed, Bryher Dunsby has said outside the coroner's court that the MoD has "displayed no responsibility, no accountability and no humility".

James Dunsby died from multiple organ failure and overheating in 2013. Credit: Ministry of Defence

In an emotional tribute to her husband, she described him as "chivalrous, loyal and high-spirited", and urged those who knew him to remember him as he was in life rather than by how he died.

She said he would have been "so hugely disappointed" in an organisation that he loved, and that these mistakes would happen again unless those at the top were willing to acknowledge them.

Mrs Dunsby challenged the MoD to make the right changes to "equipment training and to procedure", so that the death of Cpl Dunsby, as well as those of Lance Corporals Edward Maher and Craig Roberts, were not in vain.

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