David and Victoria Beckham’s British former bodyguard is found dead in Spain: Ex-Royal Marine revealed how ‘lockdown destroyed everything’ in tragic last post
A former bodyguard to the Beckhams has been found dead in Spain.
Ex-Royal Marine Craig Ainsworth’s mother revealed the tragic news in a weekend statement after launching an urgent appeal for information about the missing veteran.
She went public with her appeal after revealing Craig, who was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, had ‘posted a last message on Facebook to say goodbye’, and said police were focusing their search for him in Alicante and the Barcelona area.
In a social media update, Sally confirmed the news of his death, saying: ‘Craig has been found. With the greatest sadness the world has lost Craig. He served in Afghanistan and he had PTSD.’
She went on to publish a photo of him in military uniform, saying simply: ‘RIP Craig.’
Craig, from Enfield, north London, had written to friends on Saturday describing his ‘tremendous pain’ since ‘lockdown destroyed everything I had built’.
‘I lost some genuinely amazing humans I was proud to call friends and colleagues,’ he wrote.
Craig, believed to have been aged 40 when he died, worked for the Beckhams from 2013 to 2015 when they lived in London’s Holland Park.
After losing ‘eleven friends … to suicide in just sixteen months’ through the lockdowns, the veteran had found ‘purpose’ in coaching others in building resilience under pressure.
Craig had written on Facebook on Saturday a ‘Goodbye’ message understood to have sparked his mother’s urgent appeal and call to police: ‘Goodbye Beautiful People…
‘To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all,’ he wrote, quoting Oscar Wilde.
‘For most of you this will come as a shock but I’ve been in the most tremendous pain for the past four years since lockdown destroyed everything I had built and I lost some genuinely amazing humans I was proud to call friends and colleagues.
‘I lived the life of ten men,’ he added. ‘I lived with a pure heart and good intentions. Certainly not a perfect person but I lived life that’s for sure. I’ve been in agony but strived to project positivity into the world and help others.
