Top SAS veterans warn elite regiment is under attack from European human rights laws – and could cease to exist

TOP SAS veterans person warned the elite regiment is nether onslaught from European quality rights laws — and could cease to beryllium arsenic we cognize it.

A trio of ex-commanders, including a erstwhile adjutant to Princes William and Harry, impeach successive governments of betraying their Who Dares Wins comrades.

They pass the SAS may deficiency volunteers amid fears implicit prosecutions.

And they said the creeping jurisdiction of the European Convention of Human Rights has near Britain’s Special Forces facing imaginable ineligible enactment implicit missions similar the storming of the besieged Iranian embassy successful 1980.

Former Royal adjutant Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton led the SAS’s G Squadron from 1991 to 1994.

He served nether Lt Col Aldwin Wight, a commanding serviceman who won a Military Cross successful the Falklands, and with Regimental Sgt Maj George Simm, who got a Distinguished Conduct Medal connected a ngo successful the 1980s.

Together, they person taken the bold determination to measurement retired of the shadows successful a missive to The Times today.

They write: “The nationalist deserves to cognize of this betrayal of their SAS veterans, who request their support, not slightest truthful others similar them volition measurement guardant successful the future.

“Thirty years aft being the bid squad of 22 SAS, we acceptable speech reservations astir discussing service, due to the fact that the individuals we led past are contiguous gravely threatened.”

The ECHR includes the Right to Life — enshrined into UK law by the Human Rights Act successful 1998.

The missive states: “Since the instauration of the Human Rights Act into British instrumentality successful 1998, and the incremental supremacy of the European Convention connected Human Rights implicit our laws, determination has existed nary just ineligible model for British counter-terrorist operations.

“This represents a unsafe nonaccomplishment of ideology and a repudiation of the Military Covenant betwixt the British people, their Government and the equipped forces.

“The result: successive UK Governments money predominantly vexatious compensation cases against British soldiers who did their work to the champion of their abilities and are present being hounded for it.

“At the nationalist level, those units of the equipped forces charged with the last authorisation of protecting ­British radical from terrorists whitethorn soon deficiency volunteers of the close calibre, making the Government’s archetypal work — protecting its citizens — unattainable.”

And the trio impulse the Prime Minister to activate an exigency clause of the ECHR that nullifies Article 2 — the Right to Life — successful times of warfare and nationalist crisis.

Tory enactment hopeful Robert Jenrick sparked fury past week by claiming the SAS were sidesplitting ­terrorists alternatively of capturing them owed to the ECHR.

Ex-Defence Secretary Ben Wallace besides claimed the instrumentality prevented ­Special Forces from snatching panic suspects overseas and bringing them backmost to Britain for trial.

He said: “When we person a menace to the UK, this lunacy of being incapable to render radical crossed borders oregon apprehension radical successful countries whose police forces are unacceptable, means we are much often than not forced into taking lethal enactment than really raiding and detaining.”

The Ministry of Defence said: “It is the longstanding argumentation of successive governments not to remark connected UK Special Forces activity.”