MoD has settled 417 Iraq war compensation claims this year

Several million pounds paid to resolve claims that troops subjected Iraqis to inhumane treatment, arbitrary detention or assault

The Ministry of Defence has quietly settled 417 Iraq compensation claims and paid out several million pounds to resolve accusations that British troops subjected Iraqis to cruel and inhumane treatment, arbitrary detention or assault.

Individual claims that have been settled run into the low tens of thousands and follow high court rulings that concluded there were breaches of the Geneva conventions and the Human Rights Act, during the military operation that followed the invasion in 2003.