Should these Iraqi killers be given legal aid, so they can be tried in the UK?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/arti cle-1086168/Iraqi-killers-British-soldiers-giv en-legal-aid-fight-tried-home-claim-breaches-h uman-rights.html

Now the Government want to hand them over to Iraq for trial but their lawyers have launched a High Court challenge, claiming this would breach their human rights.

[jno]

it may suit you to call them Iraqi killers, but they haven't been found guilty of it yet, have they?

[Kathyan]

It actually says 'killers' in the headline.

[persianlady]

They should be handed over to face trial in Iraq. The alleged crime was comitted there, they should be tried there.

[R1Geezer]

They are in Iraq, they did it in Iraq, I would have thought that there is no choice but to hand them over. I can't understand the basis for involving Britsh lawyers and admin at all.

[youngmafbog]

R1, you have forgottent the HRA gravy train, you know the one put in place by his Tonyness as a pension plan for him and his missus. (Can't see any other use for it)

[Gromit]

One of the men was arrested at his home 20 months after the killings of the British soldiers. He denys any involvement. His statements reads:
"We believe that the British soldiers killed in Basra during the first three days of war died in a confrontation with the Iraqi army, which was defending Basra. We were not even part of the Iraqi army or involved in security forces; we were part of a civilian political organisation."

They have been held for 5 years without a trial. Both admit they are former Ba'athists. There is a programmme of De-Baathification at present in Iraq. There is good reason to believe that they will not get a fair trial in Iraq because of their Baathist past.

[anotheoldgit]

gromit are you any relation to George Galloway?