Crimes by soldiers must be prosecuted

Prisoners in a camp during the Kenya emergency, 1952. ‘There was cogent evidence of widespread abuses committed by British soldiers and security forces under the control of the British army,’ write Bryan Cox and Mary Ruck. Photograph: Stroud/Getty ImagesThose who advocate immunity for the armed forces (Mordaunt says troop amnesty should extend to the Troubles, 16 May) proceed on the premise that abuses by the British military are always confined to “a few bad apples” and