He served with the Army for almost five years, rising to the position of lance corporal and passing an SAS course before being discharged on compassionate grounds in 1996.He was described as a "mature, determined and ambitious soldier" with "exemplary" conduct, and was awarded a UN service medal for his work in Bosnia. I would not take that decision alone."Earlier, the court heard that Mr Wragg had been at the bedside of his wife when she had a second baby aborted after they discovered that the unborn boy was suffering from the same condition as Jacob.The jury was told about Mr Wragg's military service. Mr Wragg told the court: "[My wife] was completely aware of what was happening that night."It would never have happened if she had expressed a wish that she did not want it to happen. He said that when he told his wife about his intention to kill Jacob, she replied, "Why wait?"Mrs Wragg, who was in court, denies agreeing to the killing The couple have since divorced. "She hugged me."The former SAS soldier, who says that Jacob's death was a mercy killing, committed with the agreement of his wife, was giving evidence in court for the first time. His wife arrived and said, "Oh my God", Mr Wragg told the jury. Few sufferers live past their mid-teens.Mr Wragg said he telephoned his wife, Mary, 41, who was on her way to visit her mother, and then lay with his son for 20 minutes or half an hour."That was spent stroking his head, talking to him, trying to explain why I thought it was the best thing for him," he said.

He didn't make any noises from when I put the pillow straight over his face, immediately."Jacob was deaf, unable to speak and crippled by Hunter syndrome, a degenerative disease which affects physical and mental development. "I took a pillow from the side of him - it wasn't under his head because that would have disturbed him - I took a pillow from beside him and then I knelt across him, put the pillow over his face and then I laid down with him on top of him. Andrew Wragg, 37, said he had formed a pact with his wife to kill their 10-year-old son, Jacob, who was terminally ill, at their home in Worthing, West Sussex. Mr Wragg, who denies murder, but admits manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, told Lewes Crown Court of the moment he killed in son in July last year."I went straight away to his bedroom He was asleep, fast asleep," he said. The father of a severely disabled boy told a jury yesterday how he suffocated his sleeping son with a pillow. Ten officers resigned as a result.Sir David Calvert-Smith, the former director of public prosecutions who led the CRE inquiry, commenting on his findings, said: "Willingness to change at the top is not translating into action lower down, particularly in middle-management where you find the ice in the heart of the police service."He continued: "More than two decades on from Scarman [the report into the Brixton riots] and over five years since Macpherson [the Lawrence inquiry], we should be at a stage where real and measurable progress can be made on race equality without innocent black teenagers being murdered or BBC documentary makers infiltrating the [police] service."We welcome the improvements that have already been made ... This included one recruit donning a Ku Klux Klan-style hood and praising Hitler. The report calls for a new disciplinary offence of "racial misconduct", for which officers could be sacked.The inquiry was launched in October 2003 in response to the undercover BBC documentary The Secret Policeman, which exposed devastating comments and images of extreme racism within the police.

More than five years after the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry, another major report has concluded that racism is still at the heart of the police service. The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) inquiry found that police forces in England and Wales were still "frozen solid at the core" in their attempts to handle race issues.The inquiry team largely blamed middle-management, such as desk sergeants, for "paying lip service" to anti-racism measures. He saw forms being falsified to show that the checks had been made - and even being completed in advance.The prison is one of five run by the Premier Custodial Group, which also operates three secure centres for young offenders. Premier said that indepen- dent inspections had found that Kilmarnock was "a safe, well-run prison where staff and prisoner relationships are good".Prison Undercover - the Real Story is on BBC1 at 9pm.. I've got a dictionary of favours that I can cash in."Allen found that officers at Kilmarnock, where seven prisoners have killed themselves since it opened in 1999, failed to make the regulation half-hourly checks on potentially suicidal inmates. The company that operates the jail said staff had been removed from front-line duties while the allegations were investigated.The reporter Steve Allen, who spent 16 weeks as an officer at the 600-inmate jail, uncovered a catalogue of mistakes, corner-cutting and negligence.When he smelt heroin inside a cell, a senior officer did not act, only telling him: "Leave it now - it stinks in here." Another officer says he sometimes merely confiscated small amounts of heroin, telling inmates: "You owe me a favour now ... Prison officers turned a blind eye to heroin abuse and endangered lives by pretending to make checks on suicidal inmates, an undercover BBC documentary at a privately run jail claims today. Kilmarnock prison is one of 11 in the private sector, with a 12th opening this month in Peterborough. You realised the consequences of what would happen, but you made the decision and you made it rationally and you did what you planned to do."The case continues..