I Thought Army Discipline Would Be the Making of My Son. I Never Dreamt He Would Be Killed by His Own Comrades in a Barbaric Punishment Called ' Beasting' I Thoughtarmy Discipline Would Be the Making of My Son. I Never Dreamt He Would Be Killed by His Own Comrades in a Barbaric Punishment Called 'Beasting' ; After a Judge Criticised the Army Over the Brutal Death of a Young Soldier,His Mother Says She Won't Rest Until Those to Blame Are Brought to Justice

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FOR Debra Williams, watching her 21-year-old son Gavin march in the parade to mark the end of his Army training was one of the proudest and happiest days of her life.

But now, the thought of seeing the DVD she bought as a memento of the occasion makes her feel physically sick.

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I Thought Army Discipline Would Be the Making of My Son. I Never Dreamt He Would Be Killed by His Own Comrades in a Barbaric Punishment Called ' Beasting' I Thoughtarmy Discipline Would Be the Making of My Son. I Never Dreamt He Would Be Killed by His Own Comrades in a Barbaric Punishment Called 'Beasting' ; After a Judge Criticised the Army Over the Brutal Death of a Young Soldier,His Mother Says She Won't Rest Until Those to Blame Are Brought to Justice

When Gavin decided to join the Army, she had believed it would be the making of him, focusing his limitless but often directionless energy and providing the firm discipline she knew he needed.

But a little over a year later, he was dead - the victim of a brutal Army punishment that a judge last week condemned but which the military still claims does not happen.

Gavin died of heatstroke on July 3, 2006, after being put through a 'beasting' - an intensive, hour-and a-half-long session of exercise - as punishment for drunken behaviour at his barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

When he died his body tempe...

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