And Thank You For Watching by Mark Austin

Author:Mark Austin [Austin, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786494504
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

TERRY LLOYD

IT WAS NEVER a foregone conclusion that Terry Lloyd would go to war in Iraq in 2003. On the face of it, he was an obvious candidate. He was a very experienced, tenacious war reporter who knew the Middle East; he was comfortable covering conflicts and would not let the team down. In normal circumstances, he would have been a natural pick by the new editor of ITV News, David Mannion. What’s more, Mannion was one of Terry’s best mates.

But these were not normal circumstances for Terry Lloyd. Terry was recovering from a crisis in his personal life. His marriage was on the rocks, he’d been drinking heavily, and his work and family life had suffered. But at the beginning of 2003 he was on the mend and the old Terry was coming back. When it became clear that war with Saddam was almost inevitable, he threw his hat in the ring like many other reporters.

For David Mannion it was not a straightforward decision. He knew Terry was still getting over what had been a tough time. But he also thought it would be the perfect opportunity for Terry to lose himself once again in the job he loved. And he wasn’t the only one. Terry was very keen to go. He always used to say, ‘There’s only one thing worse than going to war… and that’s not going to war.’ He was only half joking.

Terry was one hell of a reporter. It was he who revealed to the world Saddam Hussein’s massacre of thousands of Kurds in the town of Halabja in northern Iraq in 1988. It was the first real evidence of Saddam’s slaughter of his own people with poison gas during the Iran–Iraq war.

Six years later, he reported exclusively from the Balkans on the discovery of mass graves at Ovcara, which contained the remains of almost three hundred Croatian men who had been marched at gunpoint, by Serb militiamen, from the nearby hospital in Vukovar.

And in 1999, when journalists were refused entry into Kosovo, Lloyd and his cameraman, Mike Inglis, trekked for days over snow-capped mountains from Montenegro to film the Serbian advance and talk to refugees on their way out. This is part of his report on the way back along the mountain path:

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