CALLOUS British Telecom bosses waved away concerns yesterday over the use of its equipment in a US drone programme during its annual shareholders’ meeting.

The communications group was confronted by human rights charity Reprieve on technical support given to a secret US base in Djibouti from which drone strikes are often launched into Yemen.

BT chairman Michael Rake told the AGM: “We cannot be held responsible, cannot know, cannot seek to know what people do with our telecommunications equipment.”