13-05-2025
Defence secretary backs military chiefs in war crimes scandal
The defence secretary has said that he has 'confidence' in his senior officers and their ability to lead after they were embroiled in a war crimes scandal.
John Healey said that he 'absolutely' believed General Sir Roly Walker, the head of the army, and General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, about to become head of the navy, had integrity.
Both generals were named in a BBC Panorama investigation on Monday night, which claimed that members of Britain's special forces murdered innocent Afghans over more than a decade.
The documentary included claims that Jenkins oversaw the rejection of hundreds of UK resettlement applications from Afghan commandos who served alongside the Special Air Service (SAS) during the war.
The rejections were controversial because it is understood that some of
