Criminal or reckless acts could have played a part in a teenage soldier's death at Deepcut barracks, a lawyer for his family said.

The mother of a Belfast teenager killed by two Scots Guards now serving in Iraq was today hoping to confront their former commanding officer about the decision to allow them back into the British army.

British government legislation for the inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane could be used to suppress facts in a tribunal into allegations of British army bullying in Deepcut Barracks, Lords in the UK were warned today.