Baghdab, August 11: A British security contractor accused of killing two colleagues in a drunken row yesterday confessed to the crimes in an Iraqi court, according to an Iraqi official.
Daniel Fitzsimons, a former paratrooper, appeared before an investigative judge accused of murdering two Western colleagues and critically wounding an Iraqi. The judge told him he may face execution if convicted. A spokesman from Iraq’s interior ministry, Major General Abdul-Kareem Khalaf, said Fitzsimons confessed to shooting dead his colleagues during the brief hearing.
“The British guard today admitted his crime of killing the two men,” said Major General Khalaf.
–Agencies