ITV man 'shot by US troops'

ITV News correspondent Terry Lloyd was shot in the head by US troops as he was driven to safety during a gunbattle in Iraq, an inquest has heard.The evidence came from Nicholas Walshe, an ITN journalist who was asked to investigate what happened in the days following the 50-year-old veteran reporter's death on March 22, 2003, near Basra in southern Iraq.Mr Walshe, working with private investigators from security firm AKE, said he spoke to a number of Iraqi witnesses who claimed to be at the scene when Mr Lloyd was shot.He said one witness told him he had been driving a minibus from al-Zubayr when it was commandeered to pick up casualties from an Iraqi gunfight.He told Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker that Mr Lloyd appeared to have been shot in the shoulder and had to be lifted into the minibus.He said the witness then told him: "Terry was then shot in the head by US troops."

ITN | October 7, 2006

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