Britain: Court finds ITN journalist Terry Lloyd murdered by US forces
Liz Smith,WSWS
An Oxfordshire coroner’s court ruled Friday, October 13 that the Independent Television News (ITN) journalist Terry Lloyd was unlawfully killed by US forces in southern Iraq in March 2003. At the end of a six-day inquest, Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker told the court, "Having carefully taken into account all the evidence I am satisfied so that I am sure that had this killing taken place under English law it would have constituted an unlawful homicide.... I shall write to the attorney general [Britain’s highest judge] and the Director of Public Prosecutions with a view to considering the appropriate steps to bring the persons involved in the incident to justice." Walker stressed, "I have no doubt that Mr. Lloyd was killed by a tracer bullet fired from an American gun."...
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An Oxfordshire coroner’s court ruled Friday, October 13 that the Independent Television News (ITN) journalist Terry Lloyd was unlawfully killed by US forces in southern Iraq in March 2003. At the end of a six-day inquest, Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker told the court, "Having carefully taken into account all the evidence I am satisfied so that I am sure that had this killing taken place under English law it would have constituted an unlawful homicide.... I shall write to the attorney general [Britain’s highest judge] and the Director of Public Prosecutions with a view to considering the appropriate steps to bring the persons involved in the incident to justice." Walker stressed, "I have no doubt that Mr. Lloyd was killed by a tracer bullet fired from an American gun."...
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