Shooting of Gaza cameraman was murder

Jennifer Sym
Scotsman
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An award-winning British cameraman was murdered by an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip, an inquest decided yesterday. James Miller, 34, from Braunton, Devon, was gunned down by a member of the Israeli defence forces while making a film about Palestinian children in the Rafah refugee camp in May 2003.
He was trying to ask the soldiers if it was safe to leave the area when he was fatally shot in the neck. At the inquest into the killing at St Pancras Coroner's Court in London, the coroner, Dr Andrew Reid, told the jury that the only possible verdict they could return was that of unlawful killing. But he told them that they had to decide in the context of the case whether he had been murdered or was a victim of manslaughter.
After around an hour of deliberation, the ten-member jury decided Mr Miller had been deliberately gunned down at around 11pm on 2 May, 2003. The jury spokeswoman told the hushed courtroom:
"We, the jury, unanimously agree this was an unlawful shooting with the intention of killing Mr Miller. "Therefore we can come to no other conclusion than that Mr Miller was indeed murdered."
Apr 07, 2006