Britain to pay compensation to family of Afghan boy bayoneted by soldier

Grenadier Guard

Daniel Crook jailed for 18 months for unprovoked attack Ghulam Nabi, then 10 in Afghanistan

The government should pay compensation to the family of a young Afghan who was 10 years bayonet of a British soldier.

Grenadier Guard Daniel Crook was unable to explain why the boy stabbed in the kidney in an unprovoked attack while he was hungover after a session of heavy drinking vodka.

Crook was jailed for 18 months and dismissed from the army.

The Ministry of Defence has admitted that the attack was "outrageous" and agreed to pay compensation. The amount has not yet been arrested.

The boy's father told the Guardian that his family has suffered financial loss as a result of the attack, while his son has missed months of school.

Crook

was sentenced last year after pleading guilty to the attack in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

The court martial heard that afternoon in March 2010, drunk a "considerable number" of vodka and became so "drunk and incapable" which had to be treated by doctors at night . Prosecutors told the court that alcohol had been "sent to him in a bottle of mineral water contained in a package of well-being."

at 9 am the next day, his unit left out on patrol. Crook followed his unit after some armed with grenades and a bayonet. His gun was taken from him "as a safety measure."

Not far from the checkpoint, Crook, being on his own, he found Ghulam Nabi, then 10, who was on a mission to find his father yogurt.

His father, Shah Zada ??said Crook ordered his son to stop. "But he was just a boy, and he does not understand, otherwise I would have left his bike immediately," said the farmer of 72 years.

Crook
• "grabbed the boy's shoulder and stabbed him in the region of the kidneys with his bayonet", prosecutors Financial Service Authority told the court martial. "Crook felt the bayonet pierces the skin of the child, but did not see if he was bleeding," they added.

Shortly after, his unit found Crook and admitted that he had stabbed a child. Later, he told military investigators twice he could offer no explanation for what he did.

The child was taken to a hospital in Kandahar. His father said that the British gave him a very small amount of money to pay for medical treatment, adding that his son could not walk or bike to school for several months after the attack and had difficulty lifting weights.

Zada ??said that the attack had overwhelmed the family financially that his son was not able to run errands or help collect grass for their cattle. Ghulam has a large scar on his back.

added that foreign troops were "in Afghanistan to rebuild the country and remove insurgents, not to stab a child".

case was taken by the firm of the family based in Birmingham, public interest law, after the story is revealed in the Guardian.

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