Mirror abuse pictures ‘were faked’

PICTURES purportedly showing British soldiers abusing an Iraqi detainee were “categorically” not taken in Iraq, the British Government said yesterday.

Armed forces minister Adam Ingram said an investigation into the pictures published in the Daily Mirror had now established that the Army lorry in which they were shot had never been in the country.

He called on Mirror editor Piers Morgan to co-operate fully with the ongoing inquiry by the Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch (SIB) into how the pictures were taken.