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Domenica 13 luglio 2008
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Mousa was a 26-year-old hotel receptionist who died in September 2003 after being detained in the southern Iraqi city of Basra along with a group of other Iraqis on suspicion of being insurgents.

A post-mortem found Mousa suffered 93 different injuries, including a broken nose and fractured ribs. It said he died of asphyxia, caused by a stress position that soldiers forced him to maintain.

Daoud Mousa, the victim’s father and an Iraqi police colonel, praised the resolution of the long-standing dispute.

“The death of my son is with me every day of my life,” he said. “Today’s settlement will ease a little of that pain and will go some way to enabling his children and my grandchildren to rebuild their lives.”

At a High Court hearing in 2004, Daoud Mousa described in a statement how he was “horrified” by the state of his son’s body.

He said: “I was asked to accompany them to identify the corpse. When I saw the corpse I burst into tears and I still cannot bear to think about what I saw,” he said. “Every time I tell this story I break down.”

He said that the body was covered in blood and bruises and that his nose was badly broken.

Cpl. Donald Payne, who became Britain’s first convicted war criminal, was dismissed by the army and sentenced to a year in prison in 2007 over the killing.

He had pleaded guilty to inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians in southern Basra in 2003 — the first war crimes case in Britain — but had been cleared earlier of manslaughter charges and of perverting justice.

Payne was on trial at a court martial with six other soldiers who were cleared due to a lack of evidence.

Martyn Day, the senior lawyer handling the case, said the settlement was welcome after years of legal proceedings stemming from the events in Basra.

“We are very pleased that we have been able to reach this settlement,” he said. “Our clients have been through hell over the last few years and this settlement will go some way to enabling our clients to have some semblance of a decent future life.”

Day, the senior lawyer handling the case for the victims, said the Ministry of Defense agreed to pay different sums to each of the victims, but said the individual payments would not be made public. The figure released represented the total that will be paid out, he said.

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