Ex-Defence Secretary Ben Wallace slams SAS chief for not reporting alleged war crimes to police

FORMER Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has slammed a Special Forces main for not reporting alleged SAS warfare crimes to police.

Sir Ben said it was indefensible aft a chap serviceman raised the alarm astir implicit 50 killings successful Afghanistan.

He was warned successful 2019 that bombshell claims the SAS killed prisoners and children were “broadly accurate”.

He was besides told a probe by Royal Military Police had been deliberately “frustrated”.

But the MoD continued to assertion publically that determination was nary grounds of wrongdoing.

It was lone successful December 2022 that helium ordered a judge-led enquiry — wherever helium was called to attest yesterday.

Sir Ben said determination was a “weight of concern” wrong the Special Forces implicit the alleged SAS killings.

A peculiar forces serviceman wrote to the Director of Special Forces successful April 2011 informing him the SAS had an “unofficial policy” that included sidesplitting prisoners.

Sir Ben told the inquiry: “I would person expected (the Director) to person acted successful accordance with the Armed ­Forces Act.

"The instrumentality requires that idiosyncratic to marque a ailment to the ­military police."