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02/10/2006
British soldiers 'unlawfully killed'
Two British soldiers who died after being ambushed in Iraq were unlawfully killed by Iraqi military intelligence, a coroner has ruled.
Oxford coroner Andrew Walker said that Sergeant Simon Cullingworth, 36, and Sapper Luke Allsopp, 24, had been injured in the ambush outside the town of Al Zubayr near Basra in March 2003.
However, he said that evidence suggested that they were both alive when they were taken to Baath party headquarters afterwards. After that they were taken to an Iraqi military base where both of them were shot dead.
Mr Walker said that the route that the soldiers had taken was the same route where British forces had been ambushed the day before and that the danger they were in should have been anticipated.
(KMcA/SP)
Oxford coroner Andrew Walker said that Sergeant Simon Cullingworth, 36, and Sapper Luke Allsopp, 24, had been injured in the ambush outside the town of Al Zubayr near Basra in March 2003.
However, he said that evidence suggested that they were both alive when they were taken to Baath party headquarters afterwards. After that they were taken to an Iraqi military base where both of them were shot dead.
Mr Walker said that the route that the soldiers had taken was the same route where British forces had been ambushed the day before and that the danger they were in should have been anticipated.
(KMcA/SP)
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