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The court heard Mr Woods was a flight lieutenant and squadron leader during a 14-year RAF career and went on to work for BAE Systems as an instructor pilot.

The 1958 report from Christmas Island to the nuclear programme’s secret UK headquarters says that there were blood tests for Squadron Leader Terry Gledhill showing “gross irregularity”.

Cross, who died in 2013, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and was promoted to squadron leader before he left the RAF.

But squadron leader Lucy Playle, the detachment commander in Amman, said the cumulative impact was beginning to tell, with around 1,500 tonnes of aid delivered in the past month.

John's Squadron leader was Peter Townsend, later the fiancé of Princess Margaret.