A report by former High Court Judge Sir George Newman has condemned the actions of four British soldiers in 2003, who "forced" a 15-year-old Iraqi boy into a canal and allowed him to drown.
The four soldiers, who were not named in the report, had been "acquitted of manslaughter at a court martial in 2006", reports the BBC.
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