Maj James Hook and Col Samantha Shepherd charged with offences relating to case of soldier who took her own life
Two serving British army officers face criminal charges over the handling of a case of sexual assault of the teenage soldier Jaysley Beck, who later took her own life.
Beck, a Royal Artillery gunner, was assaulted during a training exercise in Hampshire in July 2021, when she was 19, and killed herself five months later.
The former sergeant major Michael Webber, who has since left the army, was sentenced in October to six months in prison for sexually assaulting Beck.
On Friday, the Ministry of Defence said the Service Prosecuting Authority – the equivalent of the Crown Prosecution Service for military personnel – had charged two officers with offences relating to harming military discipline.
