THE mother of Tom Hurndall, the student from Tufnell Park fatally shot in Gaza, came face-to face with the soldier accused of killing her son, at an Israeli military court last week.
Jocelyn Hurndall, from Burghley Road, Tufnell Park, flew to Israel on January 22 to attend the trial of Sergeant Idier Wahid Taysir, a young Bedouin Arab, who denies shooting her photography student son in the head in April 2003.
Mr Hurndall, who suffered severe brain injuries as a result of the shooting, died at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability in Putney in January last year. His mother said the accused soldier seemed “curiously disengaged” from the proceedings.
She told the New Journal: “I want to know about that soldier’s life. How did he get to a point in his life when he thought it was okay to do what he did?” The trial at a court in Ashkelan in the Negev desert continues.