British soldier fired for stabbing Afghan boy

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Daniel Crook imprisoned and expelled from the army after the boy with the bayonet, 10, in the kidneys for no reason

A British soldier was released from the army after stabbing a young Afghan aged 10, in the kidneys with a bayonet for any reason.

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Daniel Crook suffered a hangover after a session of heavy drinking vodka when the bayonet of the boy, who was a race. He could not explain why they carried out the attack.

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by the guardian, the child's father said the attack had left his family poor, bitter and overwhelmed financially. More than 18 months after the attack, his son still can not go to school. He said that British forces were "in Afghanistan to build the country and eliminate the insurgents, not to stab a child."

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Crook conviction is the latest in a series of processes rise against the British soldiers accused of causing civilian casualties in Afghanistan.

The Guardian has learned that in a separate case, another soldier is investigated on suspicion of murder after allegedly killed an Afghan civilian who was digging near a military base.

prosecutors plan to charge private sector of the Royal Regiment of Wales for the incident in Helmand province in June last year.

The Guardian has reconstructed the court martial of Crook in an interview with the father of the child and one count of Tax Services Authority (SPA), an organization created in 2009 to carry out independent processes military personnel.

One afternoon in March last year, Crook "drank a lot of vodka that had been sent a bottle of mineral contained in a package of well-being", according to prosecutors. He was so drunk that doctors had to face during the night.

At 9 am the next day, the unit left a checkpoint in the Nad Ali district of Helmand e patrol. Crook continued his colleagues after a couple armed with grenades and a bayonet. The gun had been confiscated for security reasons, the court martial heard.

nearly two Afghans cycling. One was 10 years old Ghulam Nabi. The father of 72 years, Haji Shah Zada, said his son had been sent to pick up a bottle of yoghurt.

The soldier was "do not patrol and ordered him to stop Ghulam. But it was just a kid and he did not understand. The soldier had left the base and not have a weapon, only a bayonet. Ghulam caught and stabbed in the back near your waist. "

Prosecutors said the boy had chocolate pesteredCrook. "In response Crook took the boy's shoulder and stabbed in the kidney area with his bayonet. Crook felt the bayonet piercing the skin of the child, but not to see if it bleeds." His father told him: "His clothes were covered with blood, put us in a car and ran to Lashkar Gah, but doctors could not treat him there and took him to Kandahar .."

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• meantime had reached their patrol and admitted he had stabbed a child. Bayonets and grenades were taken from him, and handcuffed. Later, he told the military police could not explain why the boy stabbed.

In the court martial in June, the judge described the crime as a trigger for the "considerable amount of alcohol consumed the night before" and found he had put the lives of his comrades danger. Crook was jailed for 18 months and dismissed from the army.

This week, the boy's father said he had a large scar on the back of the wound. The child is still attending school while struggling with a mile of walking and cycling is impossible.

The attack has placed an additional financial burden for poor families as Ghulam can not run errands or help his father collect grass for their animals.

Shah Zada ??, a merchant and farmer, says he can not understand why his son was attacked and received no apology from the British Army. Although the credits NATO troops to oust the Taliban from his people, the attack has damaged his opinion of Western forces. "Of course, foreigners are enemies of the Afghan people - otherwise you would not do that to innocent children who just spent on his bike." In pay, said: "We asked $ 40 000 but only got $ 800."
Six members of the British armed forces have been or are being tried on charges of abuse or injuries to Afghan civilians since March last year.

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