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23/07/2008
SAS Soldier's NI Cash Stash Alleged
Specialist SAS undercover training in the use of various forms of deception and the use of hiding places have failed to prevent a soldier being caught with a substantial amount of foreign currency intended for use when troops are sent abroad.
A Wiltshire Court Martial has heard that Staff Sergeant Mark Mckay, 35, took the money from the SAS regimental headquarters in Hereford.
The $200,000 (approximately £100,000) of public funds was in an SAS cash office where it could be accessed for rapid deployment of SAS troops abroad - either covertly or in a standard type of deployment.
The money was later found in two terracotta plant pots outside his front door, Prosecutor Nadim Bashir said.
Mr Mckay, who was arrested after military police searched his home in the Ballykelly military base, Northern Ireland, in 2006, denies stealing the money between November 2003 and July 2004.
Mr Mckay was attached to 22 Special Air Service as a finance sergeant when the money went missing.
Since the alleged incident, he has been posted to another regiment.
The court martial at Bulford, Wiltshire, heard that Mr McKay was highly regarded by his superiors.
(BMcC)
A Wiltshire Court Martial has heard that Staff Sergeant Mark Mckay, 35, took the money from the SAS regimental headquarters in Hereford.
The $200,000 (approximately £100,000) of public funds was in an SAS cash office where it could be accessed for rapid deployment of SAS troops abroad - either covertly or in a standard type of deployment.
The money was later found in two terracotta plant pots outside his front door, Prosecutor Nadim Bashir said.
Mr Mckay, who was arrested after military police searched his home in the Ballykelly military base, Northern Ireland, in 2006, denies stealing the money between November 2003 and July 2004.
Mr Mckay was attached to 22 Special Air Service as a finance sergeant when the money went missing.
Since the alleged incident, he has been posted to another regiment.
The court martial at Bulford, Wiltshire, heard that Mr McKay was highly regarded by his superiors.
(BMcC)
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