A soldier of fortune who slipped a disk while giving a barrel-chested colleague a fireman's lift when working in Iraq is suing the British private military firm that employed him for £1.7 million in damages.
Former British Army paratrooper Joseph Davidson, 41, was performing a manoeuvre in a training exercise – during which he had to run in full kit, carrying the "widest" man in his group – when he suffered back injuries, which he says ended his career in the lucrative private security business.
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