Lloyd widow wants truth over death

12 April 2012

The widow of British journalist Terry Lloyd has called on the American military to tell her exactly who shot and killed her husband.

In an interview to be broadcast five years after the ITN war correspondent's death, Lynn Lloyd spoke out for the first time to explain how she wants to learn the "whole truth".

Lloyd was killed in a hail of American tank fire as he and three colleagues approached Iraq's second city of Basra during the US-led invasion in March 2003.

His widow is on a quest to discover the full story - including the name of the US Marine who fired the fatal shot. Not in order to assign blame, she said, but to gain closure.

"I can't blame anyone," she told ITV News presenter Mary Nightingale. "I can't get angry any more. I wish to God it hadn't happened, but I don't see the point in tying myself in knots.

"But I would like to know the name of the man who shot Terry, I guess that is never going to happen, but I would like to know."

Derby-born Lloyd, 50, was killed, together with Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman and French cameraman Fred Nerac, near the Shatt al Basra Bridge outside the Iraqi second city.

The TV reporter and his team had crossed from Kuwait City into Iraq as "unilateral" media - working independently of the Armed Forces - with a brief to travel towards Basra, uncovering the civilian cost of the conflict.

Lloyd was shot in the back after getting caught up in US and Iraqi crossfire, then shot in the head by American forces as he lay wounded in a minibus that was taking him away for medical treatment. Mr Osman was later found dead while Mr Nerac is still officially missing. Belgian cameraman Daniel Demoustier survived.

The interview will be broadcast on the ITV Evening News at 6.30pm and again on ITV News at Ten.

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