Britain releases GPS co-ordinates of captured sailors

The British Government has released GPS co-ordinates which it says proves that the 15 military personnel captured by Iran last week were in Iraqi waters.

The British sailors and marines were detained in the Arabian Gulf after searching a merchant vessel.

Iran claims they had illegally entered Iranian waters, but the British Government has insisted that they were in Iraqi territory at all times.

It said today that GPS co-ordinates showed the British vessels were 1.7 nautical miles inside the Iraqi section of the Shatt al Arab waterway, which forms the border between Iraq and Iran.