Irish Sunday Mirror

I served with the Army in Kosovo... but bully officer left me broken Mum urges Defence Minister to take action & help others

- BY SYLVIA POWNALL

GI JAYNE STARTS

to Dundalk, Co Louth, even though she was struggling to make ends meet. She added: “I asked was there nothing they could do for me as the mother of three young kids and they said take it or leave it. My take home pay was €390 a week, that was to pay a mortgage, childminde­r and everything else – and on top of that they were sending me to Dundalk so I had to pay motorway tolls.”

Jayne’s husband Steven begged her to leave and said her health was not worth sacrificin­g for such a pittance of a wage.

But she still hasn’t recovered from the way she was treated and is now considerin­g legal action.

She said: “In seven years I would

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