The mother of a woman soldier found hanged at her barracks told a coroner today that her daughter had become depressed after the Army decided not to charge two servicemen she said had raped her.
Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement, of Bournemouth, Dorset - who had complained to her mother that she was overworked - died just three days after her 30th birthday on October 9, 2011.
The Royal Military Policewoman had become depressed after senior commanders decided not to pursue her claim that she had been raped by two soldiers while stationed in Germany in 2009, a second inquest into her death was told.
Alexandra Barritt told a coroner investigating her daughter's death that she was upset when the girlfriend of one of the soldiers she claimed had raped her was posted to her barracks in Bulford, Wiltshire, in 2010.
She said: 'She was worried it would get out and word would get around about what had happened in Germany.'
Mrs Barritt said her daughter became 'distressed' in the summer of 2011.
She said: 'It was about the allegation she made of rape. She said there were going to be no charges and these two individuals were threatening her and saying they were going to sue her and she was very distressed about this.'
Mrs Barritt said her daughter didn’t feel 'at all supported' by the Army after she made the rape allegations in Germany, and was bullied afterwards. 'She said she had been left alone to deal with it,' Mrs Barritt recalled.
'She said people she had been friends with turned against her, and she couldn’t come out of her room because the girls outside of the room were calling her names. She was too scared to leave her room.'
Cpl Ellement, who served with 158 Provost Company of the Royal Military Police and had been in the Army since 2006, was moved to Bulford Barracks in January 2010.
She was found hanged on a fire escape at Bulford, and had scrawled 'I’m sorry' in lipstick on her mirror.
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