Iraq: Contractor 'shot colleagues in self defence'

A British security contractor told an Iraqi court today that he was acting in self-defence when he shot two colleagues, claiming that they had threatened to kill him after a drunken brawl in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Danny Fitzsimons, 30, said he is innocent of murder in the 2009 shooting. He is the first Westerner to be tried by an Iraqi court since the start of the Iraq war nearly eight years ago.