| A BLACK WATCH soldier has been cleared of a shooting which cost a comrade’s leg in Iraq. An appeal overturned a negligence charge against Scot Thomas Henderson, 37, after experts blamed an electrical fault in a weapon. Witnesses said the chain gun on the Warrior armoured personnel carrier could fire ’undemanded’. However, the gun is still being used in the Gulf. Last night, sources claimed unsuitable weapons were being relied on in Iraq because they have ’damn all else’. But an Army spokesman insisted that the Warrior was ’highly effective’. Sergeant Albert Thomson had to have his leg amputated after the ’friendly fire’ incident as he recovered the body of a fallen colleague in March last year. |