England guilty

US ARMY reservist Lynndie England, who was famously pictured with a naked Iraqi prisoner on a leash in Abu Ghraib prison, pleaded guilty to seven charges of abuse yesterday, which could carry a sentence of 11 years.

The judge at her military trial, Colonel James Pohl, called a break in the proceedings to consider whether to accept her plea, prompted by remarks in court in which she said she did not believe at the time that her actions were wrong.

The plea was worked out with prosecutors, who had dropped two of the charges as part of a deal.