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Mum of soldier fears Chilcot Report will be “another whitewash”
DAVID ALLISON
16:58 Tuesday 05 July 2016
... Michael Tench was just 18 when he was fatally injured .. by a roadside bomb in January 2007 ...
Thirteen years after British troops crossed into Iraq and seven years after the inquiry began work, Sir John will deliver his verdict on the UK’s most controversial military engagement of the post-war era.
Speaking ahead of the report’s publication, Mrs Procter, 54, said: “I think it will be another whitewash and a cover up, so I’m not holding out much hope ...
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/mum-of-sunderland-soldier-killed-in-iraq-fears-chilcot-report-will-be-another-whitewash-1-7998645