War widow gives Hoon ‘one last chance to tell truth’

WAR widow Samantha Roberts yesterday gave Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon “one last chance” to tell her the truth about how her husband died.

Speaking after an hour-long meeting with Mr Hoon, Mrs Roberts said that 10 months after her husband died, the Defence Secretary had still failed to accept personal responsibility for his death or to identify who was to blame and called her treatment by the Ministry of Defence "disgraceful".

Sgt Steven Roberts, 33, was shot dead in Zubayr, near Basra, last March after being ordered to give up his enhanced combat body armour because there was not enough to go round.