A true hero. RIP Ben 💔
A young British army veteran who was found dead at home in Fleetwood after being haunted by memories of Iraq saved a fellow soldier's life in the warzone, an inquest heard.
Emergency services were alerted, a police patrol car dispatched, but Ben’s wife, Lauren, then called Mr Herbert a few hours later, crying and saying, “He’s done it.” Ben was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital, but was declared dead at around 3am. However, Ben soon changed, and his brother noted he stopped taking pride in his appearance, managing his money and drinking more and more, stating: “He would get himself into situations.” One such time was in 2013, when Ben’s duty sergeant called his brother as Ben had been drinking and was behaving erratically and was running around in a field.
There were some discipline problems around alcohol and Ben was referred to a medical board to assess permanent hearing loss, for which he was discharged from the army in 2014, but he was considered fully fit from a psychiatric perspective at that point. There had been symptoms of PTSD, the court heard, but none were ever formally diagnosed as such, and they were not sufficient for a diagnosis to be made.
But March 8, 2019, Ben was brought to A and E again by North West Ambulance Service after a member of the public spotted him in the sea and alerted the coastguard. He was referred to the mental health team at around a quarter to 12 before being discharged by them at around 4am the next day.
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