Nepalese colonel faces another retrial

A second jury was today (Mon) discharged in the trial of a Nepalese army colonel accused of torturing a suspected Maoist sympathiser in a case believed to have already cost the British taxpayer at least £1 million. Kumar Lama, 49, was charged under rarely used legislation allowing the prosecution of alleged foreign war criminals. He was accused of mistreating prisoner Janak Raut during his country’s civil war, which raged between 1996 and 2006. The Old Bailey heard he presided over…