Jacquelyn Frith News Today

The families of hundreds of Allied prisoners of war massacred by the Japanese have urged Rishi Sunak to apologise for the British Government’s past failures to prosecute those responsible.

Even amid the litany of horrors from the war in the Far East it still has the power to shock – hundreds of unarmed British and Allied prisoners shot in cold blood by their Japanese captors as they tried to save themselves from a sinking transport ship.