July 16, 2005 Pte Phillip Hewett, 21, 2nd Lieut Richard Shearer, 26, and Pte Leon Spicer, 26, killed by roadside bomb in Al Amarah. Pte Hewett's mother, Sue Smith, sues Ministry of Defence for alleged failures in duty of care by allowing troops to patrol dangerous areas of Iraq in poorly-protected vehicles. She says: "The MoD has admitted it was looking at better vehicles, which it has now got but they have come too late and people are still dying in Snatches."