Soldiers in court

SIR – It is shocking that travesties of justice relating to military personnel who have served this country – sadly sometimes on ill-judged missions – are allowed to continue, and that lawyers can make money by pursuing people who have already faced the horrors of war (“‘Betrayal’ as soldiers face Iraq prosecution”, report, September 18). Andrew Bayram Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire SIR – As a bereaved parent of a soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2013, I am appalled to read that soldiers who served both in Iraq and Afghanistan are being pursued by lawyers.

These soldiers were doing a job in the most awful circumstances, never knowing whether they would see another day or come home uninjured – and now we are hanging them out to dry.

This situation is making lawyers rich and ruining the lives of people who were simply doing their jobs. Helen Fisher Hornchurch, Essex SIR – As a former officer in the Intelligence Corps, I am fortunate to have not been subjected to the abuse that lawyers dished out to so many of my friends and comrades.

The only way to protect our servicemen is to bring back absolute Crown immunity for them, revocable only by a court martial instituted by the Service Prosecutions Authority. James Morgan Kings Ripton, Huntingdonshire SIR – The latest legal attack on our troops is a sure way of preventing anyone from joining the Army, and of encouraging those now serving to leave at the earliest opportunity. Peter Russell-Yarde Dursley, Gloucestershire