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Inquest jury to probe death of British soldier in diving accident

A JURY will probe how a British soldier came to die on a military diving course, a coroner has ruled.

Katy Skerrett, the senior coroner for Gloucestershire, has said that jurors must be called to sit for five days between March and May 2020 to investigate the death of Lance Corporal George Partridge.

The 27-year-old drowned at the National Dive Centre in Tidenham, Gloucestershire, on March 26 last year. His wife Zoe was expecting their first child.

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