Summary
The Army failed to ensure the safety of a 17-year-old recruit who drowned during a training exercise in a Welsh cave complex, a specially convened Crown censure hearing found.
Kevin Sharman panicked and drowned in a notorious part of the Porth yr Ogof cave complex in the Brecon Beacons in July 2002. He was on the first day of a week-long training course in Sennybridge, Mid-Wales, when he joined a party of 11 teenage recruits on a caving excursion.See the full content of this document
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Military 'Guilty' in Teen Cave Tragedy
Mr Sharman, a nonswimmer, got into difficulties in the deep Resurgence...
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