A hero SAS soldier who pulled a maimed comrade from a burning plane was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder by Pamela Stephenson.
Davie Penman’s condition was spotted by the comedian turned psychologist, married to comic Billy Connolly, after she quizzed him about his past.
She met the ex-SAS sergeant, now 56, when he returned from war-torn Somalia in 2003, where he had been guarding Billy during a trip for Comic Relief.
Davie had left the Army in 2000 and had not “felt right in the head”. But this was not just problems coping being a civilian.