Iraq Doctor struck off - otherwise, all good.

[stockhausen]

Derek Keilloh was a Doctor with the Queen's Lancashire Regiment in Iraq when the Hotel Receptionist Baha Mousa died whilst in British Army custody. He has been struck off the Medical Register by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service; this can only be a good thing.

However, what is incredible is that despite a year-long inquiry under Sir William Gage, the report of which ran to 1,366-pages and named 19 soldiers who assaulted Baha Mousa and other detainees and found that many others, including several officers, must have known what was happening, the ONLY soldier who has been punished is Corporal Donald Payne, the whistle-blower who admitted to meting out inhuman treatment to detainees.

The shocking diary kept by Stuart MacKenzie gives some idea as to the day to day behaviour by British troops in Iraq that was apparently considered normal and acceptable. God help us when these thugs return to civilian life.

Quite disgraceful!

 

[Em3bbs]

lol I love stockhausen's sig. So was this thread a moderator feeling generous at Christmas time?

 

[Burnsy2023]

My generosity is unending.

 

[Irish_Tom]

I've missed stockhausen's rants — what a lovely early Christmas present.

 

['Harry]

Did he not deserve a beating then?

 

[No1newts]

So what's this got to do with the Iraqi doctor? Or is they just for impact?

 

[Richdog]

What an incredibly confusing and strangely vague OP.

 

[doodah]

• Queen's Lancashire Regiment
• Iraq
• British Army
• Medical Register
• Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service

All those organisations/institutions etc. and no stockhausen word twisting!

 

[4T5]

You don't look at the fireplace when your kicking the fire.

 

[Rotty]

ever thought of emigrating to a country that you do like something about ?

 

[krooton]

• Queen's Lanca****e Regiment
• Twittish Army
• Plebical Register
• Medical Practitioners Tribunal Disservice

All those organisations/institutions etc. and no stockhausen word twisting!

 

[Xordium]

Half a story as usual and a political rather than a considered reaction hurrah!

 

[Amleto]

this was in the gruaniad, right?

 

[Craterloads]

Is that all. Has anyone been charged with his murder?

 

[Uther]

One doctor thrown to the wolves, everyone else carry on as normal.
Wouldn't have been so bad if the victim had actually been guilty of something rather than apparently just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[Derek W]

Did he not deserve a beating then?

No, apparently the mods didn't think it was necessary this time

 

[stockhausen]

One doctor thrown to the wolves, everyone else carries on as normal.
Wouldn't have been so bad if the victim had actually been guilty of something rather than apparently just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I don't think you can feel any sympathy for the doctor. He may well have been thrown to the wolves but he did after all consistently lie to Army investigators about the injuries to Baha Mousa and then stuck to his lies when giving evidence in subsequent courts-martial and a public inquiry.

However, it seems that many squaddies and officers were just as guilty and got off scott free whilst the one person who spilled the beans got punished for it.