The four were awarded a total of £84,000 based on three separate incidents.Īt the time, one claimant was awarded £33,000 by Mr Justice Leggatt for unlawful detention and a beating it was determined he had suffered in 2007, by “one or more implements”, probably rifle butts.

However, the financial settlements were based on four test cases concluded in the high court in 2017. Many of the details of the cases remain confidential, although one involved the death of a 13-year-old boy. “What this shows is that when it comes to what amounts to policing in a foreign state, the military are simply not the right people to do it.”

“The settlements here cover a mix of cases, instances of false imprisonment, assault,” the lawyer added. Martyn Day, a senior partner with Leigh Day, the solicitors that brought the action, said: “While we’ve had politicians like David Cameron and Theresa May criticising us for supposedly ambulance chasing, the MoD has been quietly settling claims. Individual claims that have been settled run into the low tens of thousands and follow high court rulings that concluded there were breaches of the Geneva conventions and the Human Rights Act during the military operation that followed the invasion in 2003. The Ministry of Defence has quietly settled 417 Iraq compensation claims and paid out several million pounds to resolve accusations that British troops subjected Iraqis to cruel and inhumane treatment, arbitrary detention or assault.

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