Abuse photos were for soldier’s mother

THE British soldier who sparked the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal claimed yesterday he took photographs of the incidents to show his mother when he got home.

Abuse photos were for soldier’s mother

Fusilier Gary Bartlam, 20, also claimed he was told to hit Iraqis caught looting food from an aid camp known as Camp Bread Basket to let them know “who was boss.”

Bartlam took a series of photographs of the abuse and left them to be developed at a high street photographic shop in Tamworth, Staffordshire. He was later arrested after a worker in the shop alerted police.

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