Army inquest

Sir, We found Peter Haldane’s comments (letter, July 6) to be completely insensitive to us – a grieving widow and two soldiers medically discharged from the Army as a result of our injuries.

The inquest into the circumstances which led to this tragedy (report, July 4) has been the first time in four years that we have finally been able to ask questions of those who were responsible for what happened.

Without this public process we would still be in the dark. How are British soldiers and the British public supposed to have faith in an army which does not acknowledge and learn from its mistakes, or hold those responsible to account?

Of course we understand that casualties are a fact of war and this is the price that we were willing to pay. However, we cannot accept that four lives were needlessly destroyed because of a failure to follow basic military procedures on the ground.