Iraq Victim's Mother 'Will Take Blair to Court'

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Iraq Victim's Mother 'Will Take Blair to Court'

By Victoria Mitchell, Chief Reporter, Scottish Press Association



The mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq said today she will fight “tooth and nail” to take Tony Blair to court over the death of her son and what she described as “war crimes”.

Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed in a roadside blast in Basra in June last year, said that the action would also involve Reg Keys who is standing against Mr Blair in the Sedgefield constituency, as well as Military Families Against The War and the Stop The War Coalition.

Mrs Gentle, of Pollok in Glasgow, revealed her intentions after it emerged that the Attorney General warned the Prime Minister that British ministers and troops could end up in court over the war.

Today, at a press conference in East Kilbride, where Mrs Gentle is standing against Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram, she said: “We want justice not just for Gordon but for all the boys killed in Iraq and for all the Iraqis that have been killed.

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