Sue Niederer, an American mum, lost her son in the Iraq War. She was refused permission to see her sons body as it was flown into the Dover base in the USA. Lieutenant Seth Dvorin, 24, from the 101st Airborne Division, was killed in February while trying to disarm a roadside bomb, a highly skilled task for which he was not trained.

"They killed my son and they did not permit me to be there to see the coffin. They said it was for health reasons, and ... they did not want the public to see it and they did not want the newspapers there. They don't want any of this being shown because it's reality. A coffin strikes home. If you don't see the coffin you just say: 'Oh, there's another one who has died.' But when you show the coffin, you show families, you show people and emotions. This is what they are doing , this is what they do not want you to see."

Sue Niederer mother of Lieutenant Seth Dvorin, 24.