Terror cops employ law firm accused of harassing veterans

A FIRM accused of hounding war heroes for cash has now been hired to help over-stretched terror police following the Manchester Arena bombing.

Controversial recruitment agency Red Snapper Group was heavily criticised for allegedly harassing and bullying military veterans over faked-up war crimes.

The firm raked in over £5million from taxpayers by providing investigators for the bungled Iraq Historic Allegations Team, which was slammed as a witch-hunt.

Yet now it has been drafted in by Greater Manchester Police to assist under-resourced officers in the wake of the concert attack in May. Red Snapper’s subsidiary Police Skills has connections to the war in Iraq. Labour MP Louise Haigh, the Shadow Policing Minister, said the Government was overseeing “chaos” in the police with cuts.

Lawyer Hilary Meredith, who represents 200 soldiers targeted by Red Snapper, called its appointment “a disgrace”. She said: “The very name conjures up aggressive bullyboy tactics and arrogance.”

Tory MP Sir Henry Bellingham said: “I would very strongly urge Greater Manchester Police to steer well clear of them.”

Red Snapper said it had a contract to supply agency staff and did not handle “sensitive investigatory work”.

The police force said: “It is an extremely complex investigation.”