Compensation claim

THE wife of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee reportedly killed in an Islamic State suicide bomb attack in Iraq claimed he received “substantially less” than £1m compensation from the UK government.

Jamal al-Harith, from Manchester, was identified by family members from a photo issued by IS showing him at the wheel of a truck packed with explosives at a military base near Mosul.

The disclosure that the 50-year-old had received a substantial compensation payment after ministers lobbied to secure his release from Guantanamo Bay in 2004 sparked a furious political blame game.