BREAKING: Four British Army soldiers and one of their wives have been sentenced with two of them jailed for stealing military equipment from stores at Catterick Garrison to be sold online
Around £106,000 worth of equipment was stolen in total and one unit had to postpone a deployment to Cyprus after six soldiers had their weapon sights taken during a burglary at their barracks.
The court was told that Bagshaw had a gambling addiction, and had been passed over for promotion after his wife reported this to the Army.The Crown accepted that although his wife Fay did not source or steal the items and claimed to be working on the direction of her husband, who had been violent towards her, she was aware the equipment was being stolen and was conducting negotiations herself, receiving £17,000 through her PayPal account.
The Royal Lancers’ quartermaster officer, Captain Mark James, told the court that the group’s crimes had ‘impacted on our operational effectiveness and degraded our capability’.Stephen Bagshaw’s defence counsel said his client was the youngest soldier to be deployed to Iraq at the time he was sent there aged 18 in 2006, and also completed two tours of Afghanistan.
Fay Bagshaw’s lawyer argued that she was ‘never in a position of trust’ and that she was ‘originally in the dark’ before becoming part of the conspiracy out of ‘desperation’ due to financial difficulties. She had become ‘isolated’ after moving away from family and friends to Catterick, and claimed the Army failed to offer her welfare support when she reported Stephen’s violent behaviour. She has since got a job working with vulnerable children and has a daughter and two sons.
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