KILLING FIELDS
How kids are being left to the mercy of the Taliban after British forces pull out of Afghanistan
Oliver Harvey
Updated: 22:45, 3 Aug 2021
ON a dustbowl football pitch amid Afghanistan’s killing fields, I watched as a British soldier was mobbed by happy kids.
It was 2008 and Staff Sergeant Dave Thomas had helped rebuild the youngsters’ orphanage in the shadow of the British Army’s Lashkar Gah HQ.
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Happy children greet Staff Sgt Dave Thomas at an Afghan orphanageCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
One boy, Qudratullah, nine, slung his arm around Staff Sgt Thomas’s neck to thank him as laughter floated on the afternoon breeze.
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COLD CASE
20 years on, there’s no clue about what happened to my girl who went missing in Germany
Robin Perrie
23:45, 27 Jul 2021
FATHER-OF-FIVE Phil Kerton fills with pride at photos of four of his children on his dining room wall – but as his eyes settle on the fifth, it breaks his heart.
His daughter Louise, a trainee nurse, vanished while on a trip to Germany 20 years ago leaving cops in three countries mystified.
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Her dad, Phil Kerton, is desperate to find out what happened to herCredit: The Sun
Louise’s body has never been found and no one has ever been arrested in the baffling case.
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