British paratroops BEAT IRAQI CIVILIAN TO DEATH, court martial told

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SEVEN British paratroops murdered an unarmed civilian in a “brutal and unprovoked” attack eleven days after the war in Iraq had been declared over, a court martial was told yesterday.

The soldiers, members of the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, used their fists, boots, helmets and rifle butts to attack civilians who included two women, one of them pregnant, the court was told.

Martin Heslop, QC, for the prosecution, said: “This was, I am afraid to say, nothing more than gratuitous violence meted out on a number of innocent and unarmed civilians.”

Corporal Scott Evans, 32, Privates Billy Nerney, 24, Samuel May, 25, and Morne Vosloo, 26, and former Privates Daniel Harding, 25, Robert Di-Gregorio, 24, and Scott Jackson, 26, all pleaded not guilty to murder and violent disorder when they appeared at the court martial hearing at Colchester barracks.

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