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Tim Roth: 'Put Tony Blair In Jail Over Iraq War'
Hollywood star Tim Roth says former Prime Minister Tony Blair should be in prison and that he hopes his new drama will persuade him to apologise over Iraq.
The English actor, who's featured in films including Reservoir Dogs, Planet of the Apes and the Incredible Hulk, is playing anti-war campaigner Reg Keys in a BBC production out next month, called 'Reg'.
Tim Roth at last year's Comic-Con International convention in San Diego. Picture: Gage Skidmore
Reg became a founding member of Military Families Against the War after his Lance Corporal son Tom, 20, a Royal Military Policeman, was one of six Red Caps killed by a 400-strong mob in Majar al-Kabir in June 2003.
Roth, 55, was quoted as saying in a number of national newspapers:
"I've always felt Blair should be hauled off in handcuffs and put in Wormwood Scrubs. I think he’s profited from the death of Reg’s son and the Iraq war. I think that’s where he belongs... I have nothing but contempt for him."
"I’d like to think he’ll see this film, find some sort of guilt and recognition that would help him make some kind of apology. On a personal level, if it was my boy, I would want an apology, but I don’t see it coming.
"If a handshake or a moment of recognition did come, I would put money on it being in front of a camera, it would have nothing to do with privacy or dignity at all."
Reg Keys' campaigning resulted in him standing against the former PM in the 2005 general election as an independent candidate, in his Sedgefield constituency.
He won 4,252 votes (10.3% of the total), coming in fourth place, less than 700 votes behind the Liberal Democrats candidate and around 1,700 votes behind the Conservative candidate. Blair won with 24,421 votes (58.9%).
Reg's son was one of 179 British service personnel to be killed during the Iraq War.
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