Linda Norgrove

The soldier who accidentally killed the kidnapped aid worker Linda Norgrove during a rescue mission in Afghanistan genuinely feared for the lives of his colleagues and himself, an inquest hears.

US troops involved in the failed attempt to rescue the British aid worker Linda Norgrove from Taliban kidnappers in Afghanistan are confirmed as having killed her with a grenade thrown at her captors.

The parents of aid worker Linda Norgrove, killed in Afghanistan in a failed rescue attempt after she had been kidnapped, tell Channel 4 News they do not blame the US Special Forces for her death.

The head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, conveys his regrets over the death of aid worker Linda Norgrove to her family.

Channel 4 News has learned that a US soldier would face “severe punishment” if he failed to quickly inform his superiors about throwing a grenade which killed aid worker Linda Norgrove.

Channel 4 News examines the tragic death of aid worker Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan, following claims a US grenade killed her in a “dangerous” failed rescue mission.

A senior British SAS officer briefed the Foreign Secretary on the American military operation to release aid worker Linda Norgrove, Channel 4 News understands.

Channel 4 News has learned Foreign Secretary William Hague personally gave the go-ahead for a rescue mission in Afghanistan which led to the death of aid worker Linda Norgrove.

David Cameron says it was “right to try” to rescue a UK aid worker killed in Afghanistan but one of the men kidnapped with her has told Channel 4 News the mission was “unnecessary” and “dangerous”.