Court Martial Lawyer - UK troops on trial for Afghanistan soldier assault
LONDON (Reuters) – Five British paratroopers appeared in a military court on Thursday accused of indecently assaulting a 19-year-old soldier while on duty in Afghanistan in 2006 because they thought he was a coward.
The soldier, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was said to have been stripped naked, handcuffed, held down and then indecently assaulted while other soldiers looked on, a court martial in Colchester, Essex, southeast England heard.
The five soldiers on trial from the army’s 3 Battalion Parachute Regiment all deny “disgraceful conduct of an indecent kind,” the Press Association reported.
The UK’s defense ministry said it could not comment while legal proceedings were ongoing, confirming only that the court martial, which was expected to last five weeks, was under way.
Prosecutors said the incident, said to have taken place in a tent in southern Afghanistan in the autumn of 2006, was photographed and videoed.
The court was shown photographs of the soldier lying naked with his hands and ankles bound.
The five paratroopers said to have perpetrated the acts are Corporal Simon Scott, Lance Corporal Peter McKinley, Lance Corporal Jamie Morton, Lance Corporal Ian Greenslade and Private Christopher Martin.
All five are believed to be in their 20s, the court heard.
Michael Waddington is a court martial lawyer – court martial attorney that defends military personnel worldwide as well as deployed civilian contractors subject to the UCMJ. He defends Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard, and civilian contractor court martial cases. He has successfully defended military personnel as a court martial lawyer Army Navy Marine & Air Force court martials in Germany, England, Italy, Iraq, Kuwait, Korea, Okinawa, Japan, Yokota, and throughout the United States. military-defense-lawyer-recentcases.htm.
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