Editing Terry Lloyd (section)

==Investigation==
The [[Royal Military Police]] (RMP) carried out an investigation into the incident. Major Kay Roberts, an RMP investigator, testified at Lloyd's inquest that a videotape of the incident, taken by a cameraman attached to the U.S. unit that killed him, had been edited before it had been passed on to the British investigation. The RMP forensics expert who examined the tape concluded that about 15 minutes had been removed from the start of the recording. Roberts testified at the inquest that she was sent the tape "some months" after the incident<ref name="video">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6037171.stm |title=Lloyd video shown for first time |work=[[BBC News]] |date=10 October 2006 |accessdate=25 August 2020}}</ref> and that she was told by U.S. authorities that the footage they handed over was "everything that they had".

The ITN team were driving in two cars both clearly marked as press vehicles. Frédéric Nérac and Hussein Osman were in the car behind Lloyd and Daniel Demoustier. They encountered an Iraqi convoy at the [[Shatt al-Arab|Shatt Al Basra Bridge]] in [[Basra]], [[Iraq]]. Nérac and Osman were taken out of their car and made to get into an Iraqi vehicle. The British investigation into the incident established the convoy was escorting a [[Baath Party]] leader to Basra. American forces shot at the Iraqi convoy, killing Osman: Nérac's body has not been recovered, but the investigation found that he was unlikely to have survived.<ref name="video" /> Frédéric Nérac's wife Fabienne Mercier-Nérac testified that she had received a letter from U.S. authorities who denied being at the scene when the ITN News team was attacked.

Demoustier and Lloyd, still in the ITN car, were caught in [[crossfire]] between the [[Republican Guard (Iraq)|Iraqi Republican Guard]] and American forces. Lloyd was hit by an Iraqi bullet, an injury from which he could have recovered. He was put into a civilian [[minibus]] that had stopped to pick up casualties. [[Forensic identification|Forensic evidence]] presented at the inquest shows [[United States|U.S.]] forces shot at the minibus after it had turned to leave the area, killing Lloyd outright. Demoustier survived.