UK soldier gets no lump-sum comp because the "wrong" people bombed him

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A soldier left disabled by an explosion in Iraq is being refused a compensation payout because his injuries were caused by the "wrong type of bomb", it has been claimed.

Steven Llewelyn, a Falklands War veteran, was serving as a Sergeant in the Territorial Army in Basra in August 2003 when the military ambulance he was travelling in was torn apart by a roadside bomb during a riot.

He suffered chest and leg injuries and now walks with a stick but has been refused a lump-sum payment because of a dispute over whether the device was planted by Iraqi civilians or insurgents.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/frontline/2048501/Soldier-denied-payout-in-'wrong-type-of-bomb'-case.html