Family's heartbreaking battle for answers three years after daughter was 'killed by Jihadists targeting Christian tourists'

A family is fighting for answers almost three years since their daughter was killed by 'terrorists' in Nigeria.

Aid worker Faye Mooney was killed alongside partner Mathew Oguchi in what was described at Manchester Coroners Court today (February 25) as a 'terrorist attack'.

The 29-year-old from Manchester died on April 19, 2019, while working for the United States-based humanitarian group Mercy Corps.

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At the time, police said Ms Mooney had travelled from Lagos to the northern city of Kaduna as a tourist, and had been attending a party before she and Mr Oguchi were killed.

An inquest into Ms Mooney's death is now set to take place at Manchester Coroners Court, with a pre-inquest review this afternoon discussing who should attend as 'interested persons' when the hearing takes place.

In front of Ms Mooney's parents, Paul and Geraldine, coroner Nigel Meadows told the court she had been murdered by 'terrorists'.

He read a statement which gave the position in Nigeria, that 'Jihadist extremists targeting Christian tourists' may have been responsible for the death, which took place on Good Friday in 2019.

Jonathan Landau, the family's solicitor, urged the coroner to treat the inquest in the same way as other terrorist attacks that have taken place in Britain so that the family could gain as much information as possible.

He said: "It's quite right that we treat a death abroad in the same way as we would a death in this country.

"It seems to me fanciful we would have a terrorist attack in this country, resulting in fatalities, and the inquest would not look at the motives of that group."

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