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06/06/2006
Soldiers cleared of Iraqi teenager's death
Three British soldiers have been cleared of the manslaughter of an Iraqi teenager.
Sergeant Carle Selman, 39, then of the Coldstream Guards and now serving with the Scots Guards and Guardsman Joseph McCleary, 24, and Martin McGing, 22, both of the Irish Guards, were all cleared of the manslaughter of Ahmed Jabber Kareem, 15, who drowned in a canal in Basra in May 2003, at a court martial in Colchester.
All three soldiers had denied the charges against them.
Last month, a fourth soldier - Lance Corporal James Cooke, 22, from the Irish Guards - was found not guilty of manslaughter on the direction of the judge advocate.
He had also denied any involvement in the teenager's death.
During the court martial, it was alleged that Mr Kareem - one of four suspected looters - had been forced into the Shatt al-Basra canal at gunpoint.
(KMcA/GB)
Sergeant Carle Selman, 39, then of the Coldstream Guards and now serving with the Scots Guards and Guardsman Joseph McCleary, 24, and Martin McGing, 22, both of the Irish Guards, were all cleared of the manslaughter of Ahmed Jabber Kareem, 15, who drowned in a canal in Basra in May 2003, at a court martial in Colchester.
All three soldiers had denied the charges against them.
Last month, a fourth soldier - Lance Corporal James Cooke, 22, from the Irish Guards - was found not guilty of manslaughter on the direction of the judge advocate.
He had also denied any involvement in the teenager's death.
During the court martial, it was alleged that Mr Kareem - one of four suspected looters - had been forced into the Shatt al-Basra canal at gunpoint.
(KMcA/GB)
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