A leaked Ministry of Defence review has exposed serious failings in the military’s new serious-crime command, reinforcing AOAV’s longstanding concerns that Britain’s armed forces still struggle to investigate abuse, protect victims and deliver credible accountability.
The unit created to fix British military justice is now facing its own crisis
“Do Not Join”: the British Army’s misogyny problem is a risk to national-security
After her daughter, Gunner Jaysley Beck, died in barracks months after a mishandled sexual-assault complaint, Leighann McCready said the armed forces still fail to protect recruits and she would not advise young women to join.
Britain’s Army faces a reckoning over decades of alleged sexual abuse
Police are investigating claims that Army medical examiners sexually abused recruits between 1970 and 2016, in what could become Britain’s largest military sex abuse scandal.
The death of Jaysley Beck: a tragedy rooted in the British Army’s failure to hold itself to immediate account. Will it lead to reform?
The guilty plea in Jaysley Beck’s case exposes a systemic failure of military justice that AOAV’s data has long charted, and will mean little unless it drives real reform, including shifting serious sexual offences to civilian courts and tackling the culture that downgrades, delays and protects.
British Military removes sexual harassment investigations from chain of command following public pressure
The British military has removed sexual harassment investigations from the chain of command following public pressure, a move AOAV calls long overdue, but concerns remain over whether the reforms will bring true accountability without full civilian oversight.