Dying soldier 'still alive after Iraq ambush'

One of two British soldiers killed by insurgents in Iraq three years ago was still alive nearly four hours after his convoy was ambushed, an inquest heard today.

Forensic experts have examined footage shot by the soldier’s attackers then passed to al-Jazeera TV and believe that Sapper Luke Allsopp, 24, was still breathing as he lay surrounded by a crowd in the town of Al Zubayr, outside Basra in Iraq’s south on March 23, 2003.