A British coroner has ruled that U.S. troops should be prosecuted for the unlawful killing of journalist Terry Lloyd in Iraq in March 2003. Lloyd was a well-known foreign correspondent for the British television network ITN. The coroner ruled that Lloyd was shot in the back by Iraqi soldiers. Then as he was being driven to a hospital in a civilian minivan, Lloyd was shot in the head by US troops.

• Terry Lloyd’s daughter Chelsey Lloyd: “The killing of my father was seen to amount to murder, which is deeply shocking. We call on the Attorney General and the DPP to commence proceedings to bring the soldiers, including their commanding officers, to justice.”

Daniel Demoustier — the ITN cameraman who survived the incident — said the U.S. forces should be prosecuted for war crimes.

• Louis Charalambous attorney for the Lloyd family: “The verdict of unlawful killing was inescapable and came about because U.S. forces appear to have allowed their soldiers to behave like trigger happy cowboys.”