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Walker shot and killed two of the soldiers in the vehicle and made Pte Thomson drive into the Pentland Hills to dump the bodies before he was also executed.

PC Bill Anderson followed a trail of blood in thick snow for almost two miles before finding the bodies of Staff Sgt Terrance Hosker, Pte John Thomson and retired Maj David Cunningham in the Pentland Hills.

Sgt Hosker and Maj Cunningham were "like book ends" sitting upright on the steps while Pte Thomson was in a crumpled heap having been shot through the back of the head.

When Pte Oleksander Bezverkhny was evacuated to the Feofaniya Hospital in Kyiv, few believed he would live.

This was the case for Pte Bezverkhny who was treated at three different facilities before reaching the hospital in Kyiv.