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MoD preparing to pay Nimrod claims
Michael Evans
EDINBURGH Millions of pounds will have to be put aside to pay for compensation claims from the families of the Nimrod air crash victims, the Ministry of Defence confirmed, adding to a reported £1 billion black hole in the ministry’s finances.
Following the public acceptance of liability by Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, for the death of 14 servicemen in the aircraft which exploded in Afghanistan, the families’ lawyers said that negligence had effectively been agreed. Fred Tyler, of Balfour and Manson, an Edinburgh solicitors’ firm which is handling 12 of the 14 claims, told The Times that although he had dealt with previous cases where the MoD had eventually admitted liability, it had never happened so early in the process.
The board of inquiry report into the crash said that there had been shortcomings in the way that the aircraft had been maintained.
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