Ex-SAS soldier denies Iraq ‘mercy killings’ in face of police probe

‘A former SAS sergeant has denied shooting dead mortally-wounded enemy fighters in Iraq after claiming to have carried out several mercy killings in a new book on Britain’s Special Forces.
Colin Maclachlan, 42, has now distanced himself from the passage in which he described shooting ‘two or three’ mortally-wounded Iraqi soldiers in the aftermath of a 2003 attack on an Iraqi convoy near the Syrian border.’
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