Baha Mousa, tortured and killed by the British Army.

God this makes me sick.
From this ( above)
to this ( below)
in just two days
courtesy   of the British army.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/8727075/British-Army-cleared-of-systematic-abuse-by-Baha-Mousa-inquiry.html

‘’ A three-year inquiry into how a prisoner died in British custody in Iraq will clear the Army of operating a systematic regime of torture.’’
‘It has found no evidence that British soldiers conducted wholesale abuse, torture and murder of suspected insurgents during the occupation of southern Iraq. Instead it will strongly criticise serving and former soldiers for their conduct and describe "numerous failures" of the chain of command.
 ‘’Those ‘numerous failures’, which were apparently NOT part of ‘wholesale abuse torture and murder’, resulted in the death of  Baha Mousa,  a civilian who was beaten to death in British custody. The 26-year-old hotel receptionist died two days after his arrest in September 2003.  A post-morterm examination found he suffered asphyxiation and at least 93 injuries to his body, including fractured ribs and a broken nose. It seems no one is actually personally accountable for this.
‘’More than four years after Mr Mousa's death, Corporal Donald Payne pleaded guilty to a charge of inhumane treatment at the beginning of a court martial which was to run for six months and become the most expensive in British military history. By the end of the trial, all charges against the remaining defendants were dropped due to a lack of evidence, including a charge of manslaughter against Cpl Payne.  The soldiers who had been on trial were, L/Cpl Wayne Crowcroft, Pte Darren Fallon, 23, both accused of treating Iraqis inhumanely, Sgt Kelvin Stacey, accused of assault, Maj Michael Peebles and Warrant Officer Mark Davies, both of the Intelligence Corps, who were charged with negligently performing the duty of ensuring the detainees were not abused by men under their control. They were cleared of all charges. Of the other soldiers who were acquitted, four - Maj Peebles, W/O Davies, L/Cpl Crowcroft and Pte Fallon - are still serving. Lawyers for all seven declined to comment’’.

if you are a UK tax payer,
this is what your money buys.