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Inquest into soldier's death
An inquest is due to be held into the death of a military policeman from Sussex today.
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Inquest hears from sniper
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A soldier has told an inquest that he didn't realise they were shooting at British forces, and if he'd known he would have stopped immediately.
But Corporal Jonathan Dolton told the court that no messages about the location of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard's watch post came through over the radio.
Michael Pritchard, 22 and from Eastbourne, was shot by a British sniper while he was on his first tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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Sniper speaks at inquest
A British military policeman serving in Afghanistan was mistaken for an insurgent by fellow troops, because they didn't know his watch post was there.
Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard was killed by a British sniper when he was guarding a road in Helmand province in 2009.
A rifleman who fired warning shots on the night he died said he wasn't aware of a restricted firing line and radio communications between the bases was poor.
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Gunfire alerts weren't heard
Hearing into the cause of soldier's death
An inquest aims to answer key questions behind the death of a Sussex soldier, asking if he was shot by a British sniper. Twenty year old Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard was from Eastbourne but based at Aldershot. He was shot in Afghanistan in 2009.
Was a soldier from Sussex killed by a British sniper?
Was a soldier from Sussex, shot dead in Afghanistan, killed by a British sniper? And if so, what went wrong? The key questions for an inquest which opened today into the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, from Eastbourne.
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Latest from inquest into soldier's death
An inquest into the death of a military policeman killed in Afghanistan will investigate why he was shot by a British sniper. Charlotte Wilkins has the latest from the inquest.
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Scrutiny into soldier's death
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Inquest hears from sniper
An inquest has heard from a British sniper who shot, and fatally wounded, another soldier in Afghanistan.
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Gunfire alerts weren't heard
An inquest into the death of a military policeman from Sussex questions how and why he was killed.