UK:Green on Blue hero committed suicide after funeral

Soldier hanged himself after funeral
British Forces News
17 January 2013
England UK

A young soldier hanged himself in Cumbria the day after the funeral of a fallen comrade whose killer he shot dead, an inquest has heard.

Ryan Ward, 20, had gunned down an Afghan policeman who had killed two of his colleagues in a "shocking and horrible" ambush.

He had later gone to pay his last respects to Sgt Gareth Thursby, 29, at his funeral in Skipton, just 24 hours before his own death, the hearing was told.

Sgt Thursby died alongside Private Thomas Wroe, 18, manning a checkpoint in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province on September 15 last year.

A rogue Afghan policeman pretended to be injured in the road so they would help him, but then opened fire on the pair. Kingsman Ward reacted swiftly and "appropriately" by killing the Afghan police officer.
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