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23:57 GMT, Thursday, 4 September 2008 00:57 UK

'Betrayed' soldier returning home

Jim and Billy Dyer [Pic provided by the Scottish Sun]

A soldier from Moray is due to be flown home to the UK after spending more than a month badly injured in a Polish hospital.

L/Cpl Jim Dyer, 37, was left in a coma for 10 days after being hit by a car while on leave in Warsaw.

He had no travel insurance, so his family have had to pay more than £10,000 to repatriate him.

They accused the military of "washing their hands", but the MoD said he was off duty at the time.

Career soldier L/Cpl Dyer, who serves with the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers and is based at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, has seen action in Kosovo and Iraq since joining the Army 20 years ago.

He had meet up with comrades for a weekend break in Warsaw ahead of a second tour of Iraq when he was hit by a car while returning to his hotel on 2 August.

An Army spokesman said because the soldier was on personal leave they had been unable to offer help.



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