LGBT forces veterans jailed for being gay win pardons after Sunday Mirror campaign
LGBT armed forces veterans jailed or dismissed for being gay have thanked the Sunday Mirror for helping win them pardons.
Now they are demanding a personal apology from Boris Johnson for their lifetime of shame and misery and compensation for lost pensions.
The Sunday Mirror has been battling alongside charity Fighting With Pride to get justice for veterans so cruelly treated by the MoD.
And last week Home Secretary Priti Patel granted pardons for gay people convicted of offences which would not be illegal today.
Although homosexuality was decriminalised in Britain in 1967 it remained a criminal offence in the military until 2000 when a European Court of Human Rights ruling lifted the armed forces gay ban.
Up to 20,000 gay servicemen and women were dismissed because of their sexuality while others were jailed.
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