‘Torture photographs may put lives of British troops at risk’

THE lives of British troops in Iraq may have been put at risk by the publication of photographs apparently showing British soldiers torturing and abusing an Iraqi prisoner, the British government warned last night.

Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said the military authorities would leave “no stone unturned” in their efforts to establish the truth behind the pictures published in the Daily Mirror on Friday.

In a Commons statement, Mr Ingram called on the Mirror to co-operate fully with the inquiry into the abuse allegations being carried out by the Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch (SIB).