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Relatives of four military policeman killed by a mob in Iraq in 2003 have written to the government’s chief legal adviser calling for a fresh inquest into their deaths.
Corporals Russell Aston and Simon Miller and lance corporals Benjamin McGowan Hyde and Tom Keys were killed when a 400-strong mob descended on a police station in Majar al-Kabir in Iraq in June 2003.
A dossier of new evidence from two former soldiers has been submitted to Attorney General Jeremy Wright in support of a claim that GCHQ had intelligence that an attack was imminent and it could have been used to prevent the men’s deaths.
In addition, it has been claimed that four of the Red Caps had been captured by the mob and were later executed.
Simon McKay, of Petherbridge Bassra Solicitors, representing the families, said: “This is new and at times remarkable evidence which begins to piece together the jigsaw of the tragic events in 2003 when the Red Caps were savagely murdered.”
