Fleet Street Fox on the scandal that just won't die

One day in 2006 my phone rang with someone who needed help to understand just what the hell was wrong with the world.

Craig Prescott told me about his dad Roy, who had been ordered to take part in nuclear weapons testing, and had died without a war pension because the Ministry of Defence had refused to admit liability. He was just 66. Roy had passed away without justice. Three months later Craig spoke for his dad at an appeal hearing, and finally won a widow's pension for his mum. But the real issue was that these were British troops used at American tests; and the Americans always paid out, but the British never did.

A few years prior to this I had been a defence reporter on a local paper in Plymouth, and knew damned well not only how

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