Inquests

[Tug]

might be a bit of a sore point this but open to it

i see on the bbc today that they have announced that a capt read in the army who dies in the line of duty while defusing ied's was unlawfully killed.

i get that the family need a degree of closure but in a case like this it is pretty clear cut the cause of death, its not like it was a firefight that meant he could have died in a blue on blue. so why is it that we are holding inquests into things and spending money to tell us that he was "unlawfully killed" the outcome of this achieves nothing, it is pretty much accepted that the people we are fighting in afghanistan have no inkling of the geneva convention and im willing to bet that even if they were to be taken prisoner they would have one hell of a job in making it stick to a suspect.

so

why waste money explaining the obvious

[Scotty]

You or one of our other forces or ex-forces members on here are probably better placed to know but does it perhaps have anything to do with pension/payments to widows/widowers ? got to be ruled unlawful to receive benefits (or something like that)

If it does then I can see the point, but perhaps cutting the red tape and saving the cost to taxpayers and potential heartache to relatives would be most welcome.