The mother of a soldier who died in unexplained circumstances at Deepcut Barracks in Surrey has said she will continue to campaign for a public inquiry, spurred on by the recent Hillsborough inquest following decades of campaigning by families affected.

Yvonne Collinson-Heath’s son, Pte James Collinson, died in 2002 aged 17 - the fourth and final Deepcut death which Yvonne believes was entirely preventable

Between 1995 and 2002, four young Army recruits died from gunshot wounds in unexplained circumstances at the Deepcut Barracks in Surrey.

The Army insists the deaths were all suicides, but each of the families disagreed.

The families of Pte Sean Benton, Pte Cheryl James, Pte Geoff Gray, and Pte James Collinson have maintained that they were either pushed into taking their own lives by "a culture of bullying" or possibly murdered.

Yvonne told 5 News’ Simon Vigar: “'I wouldn't believe it if it hadn't happened to me. I never, ever believed there'd be any kind of collusion or cover-up and then the more and more I learn, for example Hillsborough, the more and more convinced I am that that's exactly what's happened.”

Asked if she wanted a public inquiry she said: “Absolutely, for one I want to find out how James died, why he died.”

Speaking about her son’s death she said: “They found him with someone else's gun lying across his chest. It wasn't fingerprinted, they didn't do anything about it. Everything was so lackadaisical, it was unbelievable. You don't expect that of the British army.”

“I've gone over that visit a million times in my mind, thinking did I miss something, was there something wrong? I can't find anything, he was just his normal self. I still can't believe it, sometimes, if I see a group of soldiers I still, kinda, have a little look, it just seems so unreal that he's just not here anymore.”

Yvonne said she didn’t feel official apologies went far enough and commented: “We've heard it all before, it's all talk, it's always 'lessons have been learned, we're thinking of the families at this time', they roll out the same statements over and over again, they've done it for 15 years now, we need less talk and more action.”