Trooper Jack Sadler unlawfully killed inquest rules

Writing in the Daily Telegraph today, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says young lives are being “thrown away” in Afghanistan by politicians.

Mr Clegg questions British strategy in the region and says our soldiers should be given better equipment.

Coincidentally, the father of Territorial Army Trooper Jack Sadler, from Clyst St George, who died when his armoured Land Rover hit a landmine in Helmand Province two years ago, has called for purpose-built mine-protected vehicles to be supplied to British troops.

Ian Sadler says his son would be alive today if he had been in a vehicle used by the Americans, as an inquest concludes the soldier was unlawfully killed on active service.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of our presence in Afghanistan, surely our soldiers deserve the best resources money can buy when they’re putting their lives on the line?