BRITISH soldiers dropped Afghan prisoners from a forklift “for fun,” a whistleblower has told the Afghanistan inquiry.

Monica Grenfell worked in the UK Special Forces (UKSF) between 2015 and 2018 as a kitchen staff member and a storewoman.

The former journalist’s evidence to the probe into alleged murders in the war-torn nation between 2010 and 2013 was released today.

In her witness statement, she told of a conversation with a man who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq before working in the UKSF.

“I specifically recall him (Name3) telling me that he would put prisoners on a forklift, raise it up and drive very fast so that they fell off.

“He said that he behaved in the same way in Afghanistan,” she said.

She added that she was “appalled” that the man “thought it was funny,” during a hearing that took place behind closed doors.

Ms Grenfell told counsel to the inquiry Jonathan Polnay KC: “I mean, he wasn’t doing anything alone, but it was something they did for fun, doing this and jamming on the brakes so they fell off.”

She added she came across Name3 again when she started to work at the military base.

The inquiry heard she had previously described the atmosphere at the special forces camp as “coarse and feral.”

Giving evidence, she said she had “never been anywhere that was as bad as there” and there was “sexual banter” that “went on from the beginning of the day to the end.”

Ms Grenfell, who retired as a journalist in 2012, added that in her role at the store people would take high-value items and the thefts would be “issued off.”

A spokeswoman for the Stop the War Coalition said: “We said from the outset that the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan would lead to terrible suffering being unleashed on the Afghan people and the evidence that has slowly dripped out of this inquiry has revealed just that.

“We hoped, when the inquiry opened in October 2023, that the cover-up would end and the brutality of the occupation would be faced up to. It is a disgrace that still there have been no consequences for the unnamed perpetrators of war crimes against Afghan civilians.”

The inquiry continues.