Danny Boy
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by David Butcher
When Lance Corporal Brian Wood fought in a gun battle near a checkpoint called Danny Boy in Iraq in 2004, it would shape the rest of his life. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry, but the events of the battle and its aftermath haunted him.
They also haunted a human rights lawyer called Phil Shiner, played in this dramatisation by Toby Jones. Shiner campaigned for a public inquiry, arguing that British soldiers treated local farmers as combatants, and later tortured and killed detainees.