Television journalist who reported from war zones and on human rights abuses around the world
Sue Lloyd-Roberts, who has died aged 64 after suffering from myeloid leukaemia, was one of television’s most outstanding reporters. For ITN and the BBC, fearless and resourceful, she travelled widely, reporting from war zones and exposing human right abuses in some of the world’s most tyrannous and secretive regimes. Often she did so alone, filming her own reports and going to elaborate and daring lengths to get her stories.
In 2011, Sue was the first journalist into Homs in Syria – smuggled past checkpoints in the back of a car, with a fake ID, pretending to be the driver’s sister, deaf and unable to speak. In 1994, she reported from China on the trade in human body parts, describing how prisoners were killed to order for their kidneys and other organs. She was given a seven-year prison sentence in absentia but still went back there to report, despite the risks.
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