Keywords: Navy recruit, discharged, ankle, basic training, MOD, painkillers,

MOD pays out £191,000 for ankle injury

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.10.2006

A Navy recruit who was medically discharged after breaking her ankle on the 11th day of her initial training has won nearly £200,000 in damages.

Sinead Dodds, of Newton-grange, Midlothian, joined the navy in 2001. In the second week of her basic training at HMS Raleigh in Plymouth she ...

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