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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mod-probe-iraqi-beating-claims.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Ministry of Defence detectives are investigating claims that British soldiers investigating the murders of six Red Caps their comrades beat four Iraqi policemen" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-mod-probe-iraqi-beating-claims.jpg" alt="Ministry of Defence detectives are investigating claims that British soldiers investigating the murders of six Red Caps their comrades beat four Iraqi policemen"/></a></p>
<p>Ministry of Defence detectives are conducting a criminal inquiry into claims that British soldiers investigating the murders of their comrades beat four Iraqi policemen so badly they needed hospital treatment.</p>
<p>The incident is alleged to have happened at the same police station in Majar al-Kabir, Maysan, southern Iraq, where six UK Red Caps were killed by a 400-strong mob on June 24 2003.</p>
<p>The alleged victims claim the soldiers kicked and punched them as well as hitting them with rifle butts and batons, according to documents submitted to the High Court as part of a so-far unsuccessful attempt to force a wide-ranging public inquiry into allegations of abuse by UK forces during the Iraq War.</p>
<p>The British troops are also accused of making the policemen lie on the floor and walking over their backs, verbally abusing them and dragging one by his ankles, the legal papers show.</p>
<p>A disturbance at the front of the police station allowed the Iraqis to escape but they all required treatment in hospital for their injuries, according to legal firm Public Interest Lawyers, which is representing the men.</p>
<p>The murders of the six Red Caps &#8211; Sergeant Simon Hamilton-Jewell, 41, Corporal Russell Aston, 30, Corporal Paul Long, 24, Corporal Simon Miller, 21, Lance Corporal Benjamin Hyde, 23, and Lance Corporal Tom Keys, 20 &#8211; shocked UK forces in Iraq. The British military policemen had been training local Iraqi officers when the police station came under attack.</p>
<p>An inquest in March 2006 heard that some of their bodies were found riddled with bullets, while others had marks that suggested they had been dragged, tied up or beaten with rifles.</p>
<p>The abuse of the Iraqi policemen is alleged to have taken place in July 2003 as British soldiers tried to discover who was responsible for the Red Cap killings, but the MoD said it only received the complaint in February 2009.</p>
<p>The MoD said no arrests have been made in the case.</p></p>
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