A 40-year-old armoured vehicle in which a soldier died in a freak accident on a training exercise should not have been in use, an official investigation has found.
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Private Jethro Watson-Pickering, 23, was behind the wheel of the armoured vehicle which was carrying two other soldiers when its gun barrel struck a tree in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.