LONDON – A part-time British soldier faces a court martial next week in connection with fake pictures published in the Daily Mirror newspaper supposedly showing UK troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, the ministry of defence said yesterday.
They were published just days after similar images appeared in the United States showing US soldiers abusing prisoners at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib jail, photos which inflamed the Arab world. The soldier will appear at a military court hearing on Monday in Catterick, northeast England.Defence sources identified him as Private Stuart Mackenzie, from the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers Territorial Army.Piers Morgan, the Daily Mirror editor, was sacked in May over the pictures after a government investigation found they were faked.- Nampa-ReutersThe soldier will appear at a military court hearing on Monday in Catterick, northeast England.Defence sources identified him as Private Stuart Mackenzie, from the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers Territorial Army.Piers Morgan, the Daily Mirror editor, was sacked in May over the pictures after a government investigation found they were faked.- Nampa-Reuters
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