Norgroves tell of 'worst nightmare'

Linda Norgrove's parents spoke of their 'nightmare' at learning of their daughter's death
12 April 2012

The parents of aid worker Linda Norgrove have spoken of their "nightmare" at learning of their daughter's death in Afghanistan.

But John and Lorna Norgrove said they do not want to enter a "blame game" after their kidnapped daughter was killed in a failed rescue attempt on October 8.

A foundation has been set up in 36-year-old Linda's name to promote the causes she supported.

Mr Norgrove said Linda was a "very adventurous girl" and was determined to go to Afghanistan four years ago when she worked for the United Nations.

"At the time I said to her that our worst nightmare was that she might be kidnapped," he said.

"But at the end we had to accept that she'd been adventurous, she'd done risky things before."

The aid worker died during a US-led rescue attempt and it has since emerged a US grenade may have been to blame. A joint US/UK military inquiry into her death is currently under way.

Her death came a fortnight after her parents, from Lewis on the Western Isles, learned of her kidnapping in Kunar province on September 26.

Mr Norgrove said he and his wife had been climbing a mountain on the day they discovered Linda had been taken.

He added: "We came back to be met by the police who told us Linda had been kidnapped, and from then on it was an absolute emotional roller-coaster. It's very difficult to explain to anybody who has not been through it, but it felt like sometimes when you are busy and talking to people the pain almost seemed to go away and then it would just come in in floods of emotion."

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