Jason Creswell, Alec MacLachlan and Jason Swindlehurst (l-r) were captured in Iraq in May 2007 An inquest into the deaths of three British security guards in Iraq has found they were unlawfully killed.Jason Swindlehurst, 38, of Skelmersdale, Lancs, Jason Creswell, 39, of Glasgow, and Alec MacLachlan, 30, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, were seized in Baghdad in May 2007.
They were unlawfully killed in 2008, Trowbridge Magistrates' Court heard.
A fourth guard seized with them, Alan McMenemy, 34, of Glasgow, is also believed to be dead.
IT consultant Peter Moore, from Lincoln, whom they were guarding, was also seized but released. He was released from captivity in Iraq in December 2009.
The inquest heard that, on 29 May 2007, the four security guards, armed with automatic rifles and pistols, collected Mr Moore and another IT consultant, Peter Donkin, from their accommodation in Baghdad's green zone.
They were escorted to the ministry of finance where the pair were installing a new IT system.
At about 1140 between 50 and 100 armed men dressed in police and military uniforms entered the building and took the four guards and Mr Moore hostage, the court heard.
The bodies of Mr Swindlehurst and Mr Creswell were flown back to the UK by the RAF in June 2009 after being passed to the UK authorities.
The body of Mr MacLachlan was flown back in September of that year.
A Foreign Office spokesman said it believed Alan McMenemy had been killed and efforts were continuing to try to establish his fate.
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