British soldiers ‘dropped Afghan prisoners from forklift’ for fun

British Army soldiers landing in Maywand District in Kandahar Province (Picture: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images) A whistleblower was told British soldiers picked Afghan prisoners on a forklift and drove at top speed until they fell ‘for fun’. Monica Grenfell, who worked with the UKSF between 2015 and 2018 as a kitchen staff member and a storewoman, told a probe into deaths in Afghanistan that soldiers had gone ‘feral’ and were ‘like the Lord of the Flies’ on one base. She told the inquiry she had met a man who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, identified only as Name3, before working in the UKSF and he had told her about detainees in both countries being abused. In her witness statement, she said: ‘I specifically recall him (Name3) telling me that he would put prisoners on a forklift, raise