20/02/2025
💔 JAYSLEY BECK 💔 SAY HER NAME.
Sometimes it feels like nothing has changed since When will society, institutions and the courts stop prioritising “innocent until proven guilty”, and start believing the victims? ⚠️ ⛔️ …. Today an inquest confirmed that Jaysley Beck, a nineteen year old woman who dedicated her life to service in the British Army, took her own life over the ‘relentless’ harassment she experienced in the Army, she had had also found out a month earlier that her boyfriend was unfaithful. Jaysley had reported the uninvited attention and physical assault from a male superior officer and it was ignored. She received 4,600 messages from him confessing his feelings for her, and showed her a 15-page “love story” he had written, detailing his “fantasies about her” then physically assaulted her on a training exercise. Shortly after, the physical assault, Jaysley called her friend Lance Bombardier Kirsty Davis, “frightened and in tears” because “someone tried it on with her”. She had hidden in a toilet cubicle with her feet up, before spending the remainder of the night in her car on the phone to Ms Davis out of fear he would find her. The following morning, Jaysley reported the incident to a Captain who said he believed she was “generating an excuse” to leave the training exercise, and put pressure on her to drop the allegations. He only reported it to higher command “when the cat was already out of the bag”. Further miscommunication by the chain of command proved the incident was mishandled and her complaint therefore fell into minor sanction territory and required no formal investigation - ultimately being recorded as ‘inappropriate behaviour unbecoming of a warrant officer’ and would have been wiped from his record when he was posted elsewhere.