Abstract
Reporters and the public were outwitted after the mysterious deaths of young soldiers at the Surrey Barracks, writes Cathcart: "Knowing what we now know (and that is still less than half the picture), we should expect people to be held to account." The author believes that, "at the very heart of this scandal has been the withholding of information - reporters, families and the public have been kept in the dark" and he warns: "All this may be history now...but it is not without current resonance. Deepcut was left to run amok by the Army because resources were tight. Just such a squeeze is under way within the Armed Forces again today and there is no guarantee that commanders will not make the same, potentially disastrous decisions again."
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