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CPS yet to make decision on charges over Deepcut deaths

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November 12, 2024

Prosecutors have spent 18 months considering whether to charge a former army instructor at Deepcut barracks where five recruits died more than 20 years ago.

- Daniel Boffey

CPS yet to make decision on charges over Deepcut deaths

A file recommending that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charge a former member of the Royal Logistic Corps for misconduct in a public office was sent last year but prosecutors said they were still unable to provide guidance on when a decision would be made.

Surrey police launched a fresh investigation into Deepcut barracks, near Camberley, Surrey, after the 2018 inquest into the death of Pte Sean Benton, who killed himself at the barracks in 1995. He had been found dead with five gunshot wounds to the chest.

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