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\nJaysley Beck \u2018did not feel safe\u2019 according to her mother (PA)<\/p>\n
A teenage soldier was discovered dead at base camp after she received a number of \u2018unwelcome\u2019 texts from her boss, an inquest heard.<\/p>\n
Jaysley Beck was a 19-year-old Royal Artillery Gunner, and was found at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire, UK, on 15 December 2021.<\/p>\n
An inquest further heard that she became \u2018scared\u2019 by \u2018psychotic and possessive\u2019 behaviour from her boss, as she believed he had hacked her phone.<\/p>\n
The \u2018intense period\u2019 of messaging was from Bombardier Ryan Mason, and a service inquiry report published in October 2023 found it to be a \u2018casual factor\u2019 in her passing, Sky News reports.<\/p>\n
It is said that Beck was sent a number of texts between October and December 2021, with 3,600 messages in November alone.<\/p>\n
\nJaysley Beck \u2018did not feel safe\u2019 according to her mother (PA)<\/p>\n
During the inquest, which took place in Salisbury, Gunner Beck\u2019s mother, Leighann McCready, said that her daughter \u2018did not feel safe\u2019 as time went on.<\/p>\n
The WhatsApp messages included a number of intrusive messages from Mason, who Beck helped to support as she said he had mental health problems.<\/p>\n
Some of the texts from Mason read: \u201cLove you Jayse. As a friend,\u201d and \u201cI will always be there along for the ride with you, I have said it before but you\u2019re stuck with me forever now. I love you x As a friend, I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n
One particular message prompted a response, as she wrote on 25 November: \u201cThis whole falling in love with me, its becoming a bit too much, I have just come out of a relationship and I\u2019m just not wanting to be involved in anything like this.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s weighing me down a little bit, I\u2019ll be totally honest with you.<\/p>\n
\u201cTotally honest here, I just don\u2019t want to hear how you feel about me.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCready said that Mason \u2018was overstepping\u2019, saying that her daughter told the family that he was \u2018becoming a creep\u2019.<\/p>\n
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\nBeck was becoming increasingly disturbed by messages from Mason (PA)<\/p>\n
Beck even wrote that she was afraid that Mason was watching her, and on 4 December, she said: \u201cIt\u2019s snapping me, I have replied to you and in the space of a couple of minutes you sent three texts and tried to phone me. Can you understand why I think it\u2019s a bit too much?\u201d<\/p>\n
The mum even admitted that her daughter called to suggest that Mason has hacked her phone, calling him \u2018a bit obsessive\u2019, and believed that he would organise work trips with her more often than with other colleagues.<\/p>\n
On 7 December, Beck called her mum \u2018upset and crying\u2019, fearing something was going to happen as she became more worried that her phone was being tracked.<\/p>\n
The inquest also saw a draft text that she planned to send Mason, which read: \u201cI honestly feel trapped in this whole situation, I have tried to act as normal as possible because we are working together but nothing normal about this situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s possessive and psychotic, you have to understand it\u2019s not normal behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am struggling to deal with all of this, it\u2019s taking a huge toll on my own mental health for many personal reasons. I need time out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beck didn\u2019t complain though, as she feared for her reputation in the army, and McCready explained that Beck was also upset by her uncle\u2019s suicide in August 2020 and just got out of a relationship.<\/p>\n
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\nThe teenager had previously complained of being assaulted by a sergeant (PA)<\/p>\n
The inquest further heard that the 19-year-old complained of being assaulted by a sergeant on a team-building stay near Emsworth, where he put his hand \u2018between her legs\u2019 in July 2021.<\/p>\n
The sergeant in question only received a minor sanction and an apology letter from him wasn\u2019t received well by Beck, as he said that \u2018his door was open\u2019 to her. The Army service inquiry report detailed this as \u2018possibly a factor\u2019 that may have stopped her from reporting on \u2018other events that happened subsequently\u2019.<\/p>\n
Though her family reject it, the report said that family problems, which included a bereavement, caused her death.<\/p>\n
They also said that there were three factors that contributed, which was the \u2018significant strain\u2019 of a sexual relationship with a married colleague in the last few weeks of her life, a relationship which ended in November 2021 and involved \u2018repeated allegations of unfaithfulness on the part of the boyfriend\u2019, and drinking habits that included \u2018binge drinking\u2019.<\/p>\n
It was stated that Beck has no mental health conditions and did not seek welfare support.<\/p>\n
The inquest is ongoing.<\/p>\n
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