
On 24 June, 2003, six British
Redcaps were brutally murdered
in a ruined Iraqi police station.
It emerged later that the six
men may have lived if their
senior officers had followed
army rules and supplied them
with the correct equipment.
Pat Long’s son Paul, 24,
pleaded with his killers for mercy
by brandishing a photograph of
his baby son Ben moments
before he was shot in the head.
Today Pat, 54, is campaigning
with the relatives of the five other
victims for the officers who
failed their boys to be punished.
But she is also fighting an even
more personal battle for the right
to see her beloved grandson Ben
who she has seen only twice since
her son’s routine mission ended
in tragedy.
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