Deepcut soldier had a 'secret anguish'

The lovestruck boyfriend of a teenage soldier who died at an Army base believed she had a secret anguish she could not share with him, telling an inquest he thought she drank to "anaesthetise" herself from her problems in the days before her death.

Simeon Carr-Minns was a young Royal Engineer and had been in a relationship with Private Cheryl James for around two months when she was found dead in a copse at Deepcut Barracks on November 27 1995.