Burke, EdwardEdwardBurke2025-04-112025-04-112024-07-119781350335516http://hdl.handle.net/10197/27918On 23 August 2021 Lance Corporal Ryan MacKenzie was found dead in his room at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire. MacKenzie, originally from the Scottish Hebrides and a soldier in 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS), had committed suicide a few days earlier. At his inquest his family revealed that Ryan MacKenzie had been haunted by the murder of his friend in Afghanistan. The Taliban had captured and killed 20-year-old Highlander Scott McLaren on 4 July 2011 after he had walked alone into the Afghan countryside for unexplained reasons. Lance Corporal Mackenzie told his family that McLaren had been ‘hanged from a tree and skinned’. MacKenzie’s commanding officer in Afghanistan in 2011, Brigadier Alastair Aitken, said that the circumstances of Highlander McLaren’s murder ‘had a big impact on everyone’.enSuicideBullyingTraumaBritish ArmyInquestsAfghanistanBook Chapter2024-07-15https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/