Court finds depleted uranium caused soldier’s cancer

Soldier’s cancer linked to Gulf War, inquest

A report is to be sent to the Defence Secretary after an inquest jury found a former soldier’s cancer was caused by service during the 1991 Gulf War.

Telegraph.co.uk By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
10 Sep 2009 The death of Stuart Dyson, a 39-year-old former soldier, from a rare from of cancer was caused by his exposure to depleted uranium used in military munitions, an inquest jury ruled.

The jury heard that Mr Dyson, a lance corporal in the Royal Pioneer Corps, cleaned tanks after the first Gulf War during a five-month deployment to the war zone.

His widow Elaine told the hearing that her husband’s health had deteriorated after he left the Army in 1992 and that he was diagnosed with colon cancer, which spread to his liver and spleen, in 2007.

Mrs Dysion, 41, said her husband, from Brownhills, West Midlands, had been “convinced” before his death that his cancer was linked to his service in the Gulf.

After the verdict was returned at Smethwick Council House, Black Country Coroner Robin Balmain said he intended to send a report on the death to the Secretary of State for Defence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6169481/Soldiers-cancer-linked-to-Gulf-War-inquest.html

September 11, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium