Goldsmith: We must know truth behind Guantanamo claims

A former Attorney General has told ITV News there should be answers to the question of whether British intelligence agents were complicit in alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay.

Lord Goldsmith, who was in the role when Briton Shaker Aamer entered the camp in 2002, said he was "unhappy" that a previous inquiry into the treatment of detainees finished without coming to a "definitive conclusion" over whether detainees were tortured.

In his first television interview, Mr Aamer - who was held in the camp for 14 years - told Julie Etchingham he wants to see an inquiry into allegations of British complicity.

"I hope British agents were not involved or complicit in any way in torture or mistreatment - that's not what they are supposed to do, that's not the British way of dealing with these things," Lord Goldsmith said.

"If the allegations are true, we need to know and they need to be dealt with. If they are not true, the people that were involved, as it were, need to be cleared."

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