The witness, known as N1799, said he still fears for his personal wellbeing after coming forward with the allegations.

The Afghanistan Inquiry has held a series of closed hearings in which members of special forces (UKSF) have given evidence about the alleged murders in the war-torn nation between 2010 and 2013.

The witness, known to the inquiry only as N1799, told the probe he had participated in training with someone from the accused unit, UKSF1, where he had allegedly spoken about what happened on operations.

N1799 said in his witness statement that the account given by the UKSF member in question, N1201, was in “juxtaposition” with a talk given by commanding officers months earlier that “UKSF does not operate outside of the law.”

He told the inquiry he feared for his personal wellbeing when he made the allegation against UKSF1, adding: “I still do now.”

The witness said a note he had provided to officers of the conversation with N1201 was not as “graphic” as what he had actually said.

A partial transcript of the hearing read: “I don’t want to just sit here and make stuff up but I just know that it felt more shocking than, I mean, look it’s not great reading, obviously it’s shocking reading this, but I just feel it was slightly more graphic… words that have been used about killing were like ‘flat packing’, ‘flat packing them’.

“You know, these aren’t… they’re quite normal in the military world.

“People have been on multiple operations as we all had and I just felt...

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