‘Flight records for an island used by the US for transferring terror suspects have ”dried out”, the UK Government said, days after it was revealed logs were ruined by water damage.

The Foreign Office was accused of a cover-up after ministers admitted there were ”limited records” of flights landing and taking off on Diego Garcia in 2002, adding they understood they were ”incomplete due to water damage”.

The US has previously admitted using Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BOOT), twice in 2002 for flights as part of its extraordinary rendition programme for terror suspects.’