Dean Yates is a former Reuters journalist who was the organisation’s Baghdad Bureau Chief in 2007 and 2008. It was not until 2010 when WikiLeaks published the Collateral Murder video that the truth about the deaths of Yates’ colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh became known.
Mr Yates’ written statement was read into the court record on Friday 18 September 2020. It is available below: