The coroner in the inquest into the deaths of two soldiers in Iraq has said "it appeared the men were murdered".
Two soldiers ambushed in Iraq were unlawfully killed by Iraqi Military Intelligence, a coroner has ruled.
The bodies of Sgt Simon Cullingworth, 36, and Sapper Luke Allsopp, 24, were found in a shallow grave outside Basra.
The bodies of Sgt Simon Cullingworth, 36, and Sapper Luke Allsopp, 24, were found in a shallow grave outside Basra.
An Army major has told the inquest the men were "wounded but alive" when they left the scene of the ambush in 2003.
An Army major told the inquest the men had been left "wounded but alive" after the ambush in March 2003.
They were dragged from their Land Rover taken to a Baath Party HQ and then to an Iraqi intelligence base where their dead bodies were later photographed.
They were dragged from their Land Rover taken to a Baath Party HQ and then to an Iraqi intelligence base where their dead bodies were later photographed.
Government apologised
Two Iraqi people are being held in Iraq in connection with the case.
The family received an apology from the government after Tony Blair suggested the men had been "executed".
Last week, the inquest heard Dr Nicholas Hunt tell the Oxford coroner's court the footage - broadcast on al-Jazeera - showed Sapper Allsopp was still breathing "although apparently close to death".
The inquest also heard a gunshot wound to the heart would have rendered him unconscious and quickly killed him, but it was not clear when this was sustained.
L/Cpl Philip Law told the court that the men's convoy of two Land Rovers was hit by RPG-fire.
The soldiers were on their way to do bomb disposal work on 23 March 2003 when they were ambushed by black-clad, rifle-wielding men.
L/Cpl Law, travelling in the rear Land Rover, told the court how both vehicles accelerated after taking fire, but the front vehicle was hit by an RPG.
