TERRY LLOYDwas unlawfully shot by US troops on 22 March 2003 while he was covering the 2003 Iraq invasion for ITN.A Middle Eastern correspondent for 20 years and ITV’s longest-serving news correspondent, his fearless war reporting received wide acclaim.He won an award in 1999 after becoming the first Western journalist to cross the border into Kosovo while it was still in Serbian hands.In 1988, he was the first television journalist into Halabja after Saddam Hussein killed 5,000 Kurds with chemical weapons. His harrowing footage shocked the world.Terence Ellis Lloyd was born on 21 November 1952 in Derby and was the brother of actor Kevin . The family grew up in Derby. Their father Ellis Aled Lloyd was a police sergeant who died in a car crash in 1970 while responding to an emergency call.Mr Lloyd's first job injournalism was with Derby-basedRaymonds News Agency. He became regional correspondent at Central Television, before joining ITN in 1983. He covered the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984 and the Mexico World Cup in 1986.His first experience of Middle East war reporting was in the mid-1980s when he was sent to Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. He spent his first night taping the sound of bombing and gun battles.In 1988, he went into Halabja and broke the news that Saddam Hussein had launched the largest-scale chemical weapons attack on a civilian population in modern times.His discovery in 1994 of the mass graves of missing Croatians refugees at Vukovar in the former Yugoslavia may have influenced Western foreign policy in the Balkans.While Western journalists waited for Serbian permission to enter Kosovo in 1999, Mr Lloyd and a cameraman made a perilous journey from Montenegro along a refugee route through snow-capped mountains. He was the first journalist to cross the border.He was killed during the Second Gulf War in 2003 while working as an independent journalist, not subject to US or UK military censorship.After being injured in crossfire near the Shatt Al Basra bridge in Iraq, he was taken to a makeshift ambulance. American troops opened fire on the ambulance after it stopped to pick up survivors and Mr Lloyd was fatally shot in the head.Terry Lloyd was an experienced correspondent who covered stories as diverse as the collapse of the Cambodia coalition government in 1997 and Sir Richard Branson’s 1998 attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon.An eight-day UK inquest hearing into his death recorded a verdict of unlawful killing on 13 October 2006.In January 2007, ITN released the names of the 16 US Marines present at the time of the shooting but no further action was taken.His death was described as a “war crime” by the National Union of Journalists.
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