A war reporter has told how journalist Terry Lloyd's cameraman begged her to drive him back into a firefight to save his colleagues after she discovered him on a road.

Barbara Jones, working unilaterally in southern Iraq for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, told how cameraman Daniel Demoustier came "half-running, half-crawling" towards their van as they neared the Shatt Al Basra Bridge area.

She told the Oxford inquest he was "very wild – he was covered in white sand and appeared very distressed".