Army medic dies on the day he was due to start tour after being beaten up on final night out | Mail Online: "A paratrooper has died after being assaulted during a night out with friends.
Rory McWilliams, 20, died of his injuries on the day he was due to begin his first tour of Afghanistan.
The Army medic with the Parachute Regiment, was attacked by two men in the early hours of February 6 and suffered a serious brain injury.
He was rushed to hospital where he remained in a critical condition for six days before dying on Saturday.
The young soldier's family have paid tribute to him as a hero and appealed for witnesses to the violent attack to come forward.
His mother, Christine Akintoye, said: 'Prison is too good for the low-lives who did this.
'Paratroopers are so rare out there so paratroopers who are medics are like gold dust.
'You prepare yourself for something like this happening in Afghanistan but it's shocking that he can end up like that after a night in Northampton.' "
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