Mirror.co.uk: Tribute to Sunday Mirror correspondent killed in Afghanistan
January 11th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Press freedom and ethics
The Sunday Mirror’s defence correspondent Rupert Hamer, who had worked for the title for 12 years, was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan on Saturday 9 January.
Photographer Phil Coburn, 43, who was working with Hamer, was also injured in the attack and is in a “serious but stable condition,” the Mirror reported.
Follow this link for the paper’s tribute to Hamer’s work over the years.
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