The Sunday People has led the campaign to get war heroes with PTSD the care they deserve.
So we were pleased that it was our report last week that alerted new Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt to the way her department has been treating them.
She was understandably furious.
A charity had accused her of snubbing its plea for help to set up a suicide register for veterans.
In fact she knew nothing about the request because her officials did not show her the letter.
Ms Mordaunt told them this is not acceptable.
And she has told the charity she is investigating personally.
That’s more than her predecessors Gavin Williamson and Michael Fallon ever did.
The MoD has been brushing PTSD under the carpet for too long and Ms Mordaunt is signalling that she might be a refreshing new broom.
Her civil servants won’t like it.
But they’re not the ones suffering the nightmares and ill-effects of loyally serving their country in horrific circumstances.
We hope Ms Mordaunt now gives PTSD sufferers the attention, justice and dignity that is their right.
And orders her officials to do so too
So that in the MoD, at last, the penny begins to drop.
So many monsters freed to kill again
Quyen Nguyen, 28, was hideously tortured, sexually abused and killed by two freed murderers on probation.
But she was not the only victim.
Rachel Edmundson, ex-partner of one of the killers, is full of guilt wondering if there was anything she could have done to prevent this monstrous act.
She is also asking the question on everyone’s lips: “Why didn’t the probation service do more?”
We accept probation officers have a tough job.
They have to balance the interests of the offender with that of the public, making sure those they are monitoring do not pose a danger.
Yet there is clearly something wrong with a system that allows offenders on probation to commit 382 murders in four years.
Former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling’s disastrous part-privatisation has been reversed.
But a root-and-branch overhaul of the probation system is still desperately needed.
