The army’s former chief legal adviser in Iraq has criticised David Cameron’s crackdown on legal claims against Iraq veterans.
Lt Col Nicholas Mercer, now an Anglican priest, said the prime minister was wrong to characterise those raising concerns about military abuse as “money-grabbing lawyers”.
The prime minister has ordered a clampdown on lawyers pursuing claims against veterans of the Iraq war. A Number 10 source told the Press Association: “The prime minister is deeply concerned at the large number of spurious claims being made against members of our armed forces.”
Mercer said the claims were not spurious and raised issues of “very high importance”, including the abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan and the beating to death by soldiers of the Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa.
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