A man has been arrested in France in connection with the killings of a British engineer and his family.

Charges against two Iraqis accused of the murders of six British military policemen more than seven years ago have been dropped by a judge in Baghdad, it has emerged.

The hunt for the killers of six British soldiers in Iraq was continuing today after the British government warned it would be days before the truth of what happened emerged.

IT will be days before British Army investigators know why six military police were killed in Iraq, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said last night.