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Ex-SAS TV Star Denies 'Mercy Killings'
Former SAS soldier Colin Maclachlan has denied carrying out 'mercy killings' during the 2003 Iraq War.
Sgt Maclachlan, who has appeared on television to talk about his military experiences, is reportedly being investigated for murder.
It comes after claims in an as-yet unpublished book that he shot dead "two or three" soldiers who'd been fatally wounded during an attack on an Iraqi army convoy.
Killing mortally wounded soldiers is illegal by the standards of UK military law and the Geneva Conventions.
For his part, Colin MacLachlan has denied carrying out the killings, and said that he had not read a ghost-written draft of the book that was given to a newspaper:
"I certainly didn't walk up and execute three people. I stand by what happened but I didn't kill them. That's taking it a bridge too far".
Mr. MacLachlan recently appeared in Channel 5's "Secrets of the SAS", as well as Channel 4's "SAS: Who Dares Wins" last year.
His activities in the SAS were also to be documented in the upcoming book.
A manuscript of it was passed to the MoD so that it could be vetted for classified information, and it is said to have been passed to the military police for "preliminary" inquiries from there, according to the BBC.
A formal investigation into the claim has not been launched at this time.
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