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Former army adviser slams efforts to stop MoD abuse pay-outs
THE former chief legal adviser to the army hit out yesterday at government attempts to avoid paying compensation to victims of abuse and torture during the Iraq war.
Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered the national security council to bring a halt to “spurious” legal claims against potentially hundreds of British veterans of the Iraq war.
However the army’s top post-invasion Iraq adviser Nicholas Mercer, who himself raised concerns of abuse by British forces, criticised the move.
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