Military psychologists delved into traumatized soldier’s childhood ‘to avoid payouts’

‘Ministry of Defence (MoD) psychologists apparently grilled a soldier about his childhood in what he believes was an attempt to avoid having to pay him compensation for post-traumatic stress sustained in close quarters combat.
The veteran, who is named only as ‘Soldier A’ by the Daily Express, won compensation after the MoD contested his claims and also lost his medical records.
“The MoD got a psychologist to ask me about my childhood and my relationship with my parents. I had a perfectly normal childhood but I had experienced some horrific things in Iraq,” he told the paper.
Soldier A took part in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy in Iraq in 2004, in which British soldiers with faulty communications equipment were set upon by insurgents. Troops had to bayonet charge the enemy in the hand-to-hand fighting that followed.’
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