Brought up in a military family in the Bedfordshire town of Luton, Jason Fox joined the Royal Marines at the age of 16, first becoming a Commando and then joining the Special Boat Service.
‘In the Special Forces I learned to manage fear, emotional breakdown, pain in hostile environments and the horrors of war,’ he wrote in his biography Life Under Fire. ‘I thrived in events that would have crushed most people, and work was a ten-year rollercoaster of physical and mental extremes.’