The Cranberries' 'Dreams' involved in soldier's death
A military inquiry heard yesterday how The Cranberries may have played an unwitting part in the death of an Australian soldier serving in Baghdad.
The Hot Press Newsdesk, 21 Jun 2006
According to a colleague identified only as ‘Soldier 17’, 26-year-old Private Jake Kovco shot himself with a handgun as they were singing along to ‘Dreams’ in “the best girl’s voice we could”.
“I though he might have done it in a joking fashion because the song we were singing was in a female, homosexual way,” Soldier 17 continued. “Almost as if to say, ‘This is so gay I’d rather be dead’. I have no evidence to support this theory and I didn’t see Private Kovco do it, but it’s the only way I can explain how he shot himself.”
Soldier 17 went on to testify that loose gunplay was commonplace in the Australian Embassy-based unit.
“I’ve seen people pointing their pistols at others and pulling the trigger. I’ve always seen this as inappropriate and told people not to do it.”
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