Soldiers who suffered appalling injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan were verbally abused as they swam in a public swimming pool.
During a weekly rehabilitation session, 15 severely wounded servicemen with missing limbs and sever burns were heckled and jeered at by members of the public.
One woman screamed at the soldiers telling them they had no right to be there.
She became increasingly abusive, screaming that it was wrong for staff to rope off a lane exclusively for the injured personnel from the nearby Headley Court rehabilitation centre.
The swimmer, thought to be in her 30s, is understood to have said:
“I pay to come here and swim – you lot don’t.”
The soldiers, who use the pool as part of a water therapy course, were quickly ordered out by their instructor to avoid further embarrassment.
The Headley Court Rehabilitation Centre treats 180 injured servicemen who have to make a half-hour trip to Leatherhead to use the pool.
Living in a free society can be frustrating sometimes. It would be nice to occasionally put “free speech” on hold just long enough to beat the hell out of someone and then throw them in jail.
Those soldiers deserve to use any f*cking pool they want at any time of day or night.
-Chris Jones
