Pressure On Ministers As Soldiers' Pounds 8m Trial Collapses .

Evening Standard - London › November 04, 2005

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MINISTERS are under pressure to justify the Pounds 8 million trial of seven British paratroopers accused of murdering an Iraqi teenager.

Britain's most expensive court martial collapsed after the judge ruled evidence against the soldiers was "vague and weak". Opposition MPs called on Defence Secretary John Reid to make a statement on the trial and its implications for armed forces morale in the wake of suggestions that it had been a politically motivated "show trial".

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Pressure On Ministers As Soldiers' Pounds 8m Trial Collapses .

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