Soldier, 19, found dead on army base after ‘psychotic and possessive boss hacked phone & bombarded her with messages’

A SOLDIER was recovered dormant connected an service basal aft her "psychotic and possessive" brag bombarded her with messages, an inquest heard.

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck was discovered astatine Larkhill Camp successful Wiltshire connected December 15, 2021.

The 19-year-old was subjected to an "intense play of unwelcome behaviour" from Bombardier Ryan Mason, an inquest heard.

A work enquiry study published successful October 2023 recovered this was astir surely a "casual factor" successful Jaysley's death.

Between October 2021 and December 2021, Mason sent the Gunner a drawstring of substance messages, an inquest was told.

In November unsocial - the period earlier Jaysley's decease - she received 3,600 messages.

In one, helium told her: "Love you Jayse. As a friend."

Mason besides told her: "You're astonishing Jayse, I admit you truthful much, I emotion everything astir you, adjacent your flaws.

"I volition ever beryllium determination on for the thrust with you, I person said it earlier but you're stuck with maine everlastingly now. I emotion you x As a friend, I emotion you."

On November 25, Jaysley told Mason: "This full falling successful emotion with me, its becoming a spot excessively much, I person conscionable travel retired of a narration and I'm conscionable not wanting to beryllium progressive successful thing similar this.

"It's weighing maine down a small bit, I'll beryllium wholly honorable with you."

She added: "Totally honorable here, I conscionable don't privation to perceive however you consciousness astir me."

In different message, Jaysley wrote that she feared Mason was watching her.

She said: "When you said you seen maine permission campy I was a spot taken backmost similar are you watching maine erstwhile you accidental things similar 'You're there' it's conscionable weird and the full happening is conscionable bizarre."

In different connection sent 11 days earlier she died, Jaysley told Mason: "It's snapping me, I person replied to you and successful the abstraction of a mates of minutes you sent 3 texts and tried to telephone me.

"Can you recognize wherefore I deliberation it's a spot excessively much?"

Jaysley's mum Leighann McCready told the court her girl felt that Mason was "overstepping the people of her friendliness" and was becoming a "creep".

The mum said Jaysley called her connected December 7 "upset and crying" arsenic she disquieted that her brag had hacked her telephone and was listening to her conversations.

The inquest was besides shown a draught connection Jaysley was readying to nonstop Mason.

It read: "I honestly consciousness trapped successful this full situation, I person tried to enactment arsenic mean arsenic imaginable due to the fact that we are moving unneurotic but thing mean astir this situation.

"It's possessive and psychotic, you person to recognize it's not mean behaviour.

"I americium struggling to woody with each of this, it's taking a immense toll connected my ain intelligence health for galore idiosyncratic reasons. I request clip out."

The proceeding was besides told that Jaysley had complained of being assaulted by a sergeant who enactment his manus "between her legs" portion connected a team-building enactment successful July 2021.

Leighann said that her girl had been excessively acrophobic to instrumentality to her country that nighttime and slept successful her car.

She besides told the proceeding that her girl was angered by an apology missive from the sergeant, who received a insignificant sanction, which ended by saying his "door was open" for her.

The inquest continues.

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