THE bodies of six soldiers killed in Afghanistan - including five who died when an Afghan policeman turned his gun on them - returned to home to Britain today.

Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40, Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman Jimmy Major, 18, from the Grenadier Guards, died alongside Corporal Steven Boote, 22, and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police.

They were shot dead by a "rogue" Afghan police officer at a secure checkpoint in Nad-e-Ali in Helmand Province on November 3 in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

Two days later, St Phillip Scott, 30, of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was killed by an improvised explosive device near Sangin in Helmand.

The C-17 Globemaster transporting their coffins landed at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire just after 11am.

After a private repatriation ceremony for their families, hearses carrying their Union flag-draped coffins will pass along the High Street of Wootton Bassett.

Crowds have appeared along the route to pay their respects since the bodies of British service personnel began being brought home through RAF Lyneham in 2007.

The procession will then continue to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital.