Body of ex-Army officer to be flown from Turkey to UK

James Le Mesurier was found dead outside his home in Istanbul on November 11.

The body of a former British army officer who helped found the White Helmets volunteer group in Syria is to be flown to London following a post-mortem, Turkey’s state-run news agency said

The Anadolu Agency said James Le Mesurier’s body would be flown aboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul airport later on Wednesday.