Witness to murder?
Afghanistan inquiry to hear oral evidence of unlawful military killings
The independent judicial inquiry into allegations of extra-judicial killings by British special forces in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013 is expected to hear oral evidence about an occasion “when an individual was shot in the head whilst they slept”.
To achieve this aim, Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, the appeal judge leading the inquiry, has allowed a number of military witnesses to be questioned by inquiry lawyers under tightly controlled conditions.
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