Victims of torture must have justice

Defence secretary Ben Wallace. ‘Surely no serving minister could believe it is acceptable to support actions banned under the UN convention against torture,’ writes Sonya Sceats. Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty ImagesIt would be comforting to think that a story about the defence secretary endorsing mock executions in an interview 16 years ago (Report, 9 September) might be of merely historic interest. Surely no serving minister could believe it acceptable to support actions banned un