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Hero Brit soldier Robert Campbell cleared of drowning man in Iraq after 17-YEAR witch hunt into claims made up by locals

• Jerome Starkey

• 24 Sep 2020, 15:45
• Updated: 25 Sep 2020, 
• • A HERO British soldier whose life has been ruined by bogus war crimes charges has finally been exonerated - after a 17-year witch hunt.
    Major Robert Campbell was accused of drowning an Iraqi man in Basra in 2003.
    

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    Major Robert Campbell, who had been under investigation for 17 years
    

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    Troops were sent to Iraq from Britain in 2003Credit: Alamy
    A judge said those claims were based on lies, collusion and a "possible conspiracy" to pervert the course of justice.
    It is the latest of more than 4,000 cases to collapse because of lack of evidence prompting furious claims from soldiers that the MoD “hung them out to dry”.
    Baroness Heather Hallett said there was “no reliable evidence” that Maj Campbell - referred to as SO70 in the report - or his comrades pushed 19-year-old Saeed Shabram, or fellow looter Munem Auda, into the Shatt Al Arab river.
    She said: "I have concluded that there is clear evidence of collusion and possibly a conspiracy on the part of some Iraqi civilians to pervert the course of justice.
    “My ultimate conclusion is that there is no reliable evidence upon which it would be proper to conclude that [Major Campbell] or any other British soldier pushed or forced Auda and Shabram into the water.
    “It is most likely that they jumped or fell into the water in the process of trying to escape what they believed would be dire punishment for looting.”
    Maj Campbell, a Royal Engineer, returned his medals to the Queen in 2018 in disgust at the way he had been treated by the Ministry of Defence.
    Friends said he had been "pushed to the brink" by the relentless investigations, with one saying "it very nearly did him in".

    'NO RELIABLE EVIDENCE'

    The report by the Iraq Fatalities Investigations (IFI) unit said Campbell, 47, and a comrade leapt into the water to try and rescue Shabram but “he sank and did not surface”.
    Royal Military Police knew that witnesses had lied in the aftermath of Shabram’s death but they failed to shield the soldiers from a 17-year witch hunt which included eight devastating probes.
    General Lord Dannatt, who was head of the army from 2006 to 2009, said Major Campbell’s life and career “had been ruined” by relentless investigations.
    “It should never have taken 17 years to get to this point,” Gen Dannatt said. The Sun.
  • Blogger: compensation should be huge! Funny how that is not mentioned here.