Abuse video shown at public inquiry into British Army interrogation of Iraqis

Screaming obscenities, a British soldier hauls the hooded Iraqi detainee off the floor and forces him to lean, legs bent, against a wall as other captives, sacks over their heads and wrists bound with tape, groan in discomfort.

The damning images, captured on an amateur-style video, were released for the first time yesterday at the opening of a public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi in British military custody in southern Iraq six years ago.

The hearing was also told how a second detainee was made to dance in the style of Michael Jackson, a third was urinated on and seven others suffered varying degrees and forms of abuse.