Soldier who led army’s famous wolfhound Seamus ‘sacked for taking cocaine’

A worker who led the equipped forces’ celebrated Irish wolfhound Seamus connected ceremonial parades has been sacked for ‘taking cocaine’.

Drummer Ashley Dean tested affirmative for the Class A cause aft marching with Seamus, whose authoritative sanction is Turlough Mor, The Sun reported.

He marched with the wolfhound astatine high-profile ceremonies that were often attended by members of the Royal Family.

Dean, the tabloid claimed, had a gathering with bosses astatine the battalion’s office wherever they informed him that his cause trial had travel backmost positive.

He was swiftly sacked from his post.

Seamus is the mascot of the Irish Guard’s regiment, whose colonel-in-chief is Kate, Princess of Wales.

A root said that Drummer Dean, often seen successful a ceremonial tunic and a bearskin with Seamus, was caught retired by a random cause trial a fewer weeks ago.

He said: ‘A fewer Tuesdays agone they did a compulsory cause trial and it came backmost affirmative for cocaine. He’s conscionable been kicked retired for it — they usually effort and get you retired truly quick.’

The root added: ‘He would person been astir the royals and overseas enactment figures — helium would person been gathering them. I don’t deliberation it’s bully for radical going astir royalty to beryllium doing that, it brings a atrocious sanction to the battalion.

‘Being successful with specified a prestigious regiment, helium should cognize better.’

Drummer Dean served with the set of the Irish Guards, which regularly performs astatine royal events including tourer favourite Changing the Guard outside Buckingham Palace.

Turlough Mor is the regiment’s 17th authoritative mascot named aft an past king.

However, helium is known affectionately arsenic ‘Seamus’.

He regularly leads the unit parades including its St Patrick’s Day march wherever VIPs including the Princess of Wales contiguous the guards and Kate with shamrocks.

Before she stopped nationalist engagements to person crab treatment, Kate was often seen stroking the wolfhound and different Army ceremonial dogs.

An Army spokesperson told Metro: ‘Drug usage successful the equipped forces is unacceptable, and incompatible with subject service.

‘Any work unit caught taking drugs tin expect to beryllium discharged.

‘We person a fig of measures successful spot to forestall cause usage including compulsory cause testing.’

The Army said they would not remark connected idiosyncratic cases.

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