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The ‘cruellest, sickest thing I ever heard’.
The dad of a British soldier murdered in Iraq has described Sir Tony Blair’s knighthood as a ‘kick in the stomach’. metro.co.uk/2022/01/03/dad…
The dad of a British soldier murdered in Iraq has described Sir Tony Blair’s knighthood as a ‘kick in the stomach’. metro.co.uk/2022/01/03/dad…
John Miller said ‘it’s hard to describe the pain this news has caused us’ as he and his wife, Marilyn, continue to seek justice over their son Simon’s brutal death on a training mission in June 2003.
Cpl Miller, 21, was one of six Royal Military Policemen who were viciously beaten and shot with high-velocity rifles as they were overpowered by a 400-strong mob in the toxic aftermath of the invasion. 
Mr Miller, 70, told Metro.co.uk that a scroll from the Queen thanking Cpl Miller for laying down his life ‘now means absolutely nothing’ after the former Prime Minister was appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the New Year Honours.
‘For me and my wife, to see the headlines on New Year’s morning announcing a knighthood for Tony Blair came as a complete kick in the stomach,’
‘It’s hard to describe the pain this news has caused us. We have been fighting for justice for our son Simon since the day he was murdered in Iraq, on June 24, 2003.'
'Our lives have been consumed by it.'
'Our lives have been consumed by it.'
The distinction has been granted despite Blair having sent British troops into Iraq on the basis of disputed intelligence.
In 2016, the Chilcot Report found that the mission was predicated on ‘flawed’ information that was ‘presented with a certainty that was not justified’.
In 2016, the Chilcot Report found that the mission was predicated on ‘flawed’ information that was ‘presented with a certainty that was not justified’.
Cpl Miller, from Washington, Tyne and Wear, was among 136 British Armed Forces personnel and Ministry of Defence (MoD) civilians who died as a result of hostile action during Operation Telic between 2003 and 2011.
The soldier, who was engaged to be married after his tour, and his comrades in the close-knit 156 Provost Company spent their last moments trapped in a police station in the southern Iraqi town of Majar al-Kabir.
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