Iraqi prisoners 'were sexually humiliated by female British soldier'

A female British soldier is accused of sexually humiliating and abusing prisoners in Iraq in a series of claims about British troops in Basra, The Times has learned. Five former detainees have made specific allegations against a female interrogator they knew as "Katy". The claims are among 14 new cases brought against a secretive British Army interrogation unit. These bring to 40 the total of pending British court cases by former Iraqi detainees. Sexual abuse was routinely practiced by the Joint Forward Intelligence Team between 2003 and 2007, it is claimed, when the unit ran the Divisional Temporary Detention Facility based at the Shaibah Logistics Base near Basra. Among the allegations is at least one case of male rape.