A bomb disposal expert was unlawfully killed in Afghanistan trying to defuse a device he could not have detected, a coroner has ruled.
Nothing about the Army operation could have prevented Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid's "catastrophic injuries", said West Cornwall coroner Emma Carlyon.
Staff Sgt Schmid, 30, had triggered a new type of pressure plate developed by the Taliban, the inquest heard.
In a statement his widow Christina said the hearing had been "traumatic".
She said the process of recording the precise moment of her husband's death had been "deeply unsettling".
Staff Sgt Schmid died in October 2009 the day before he was due to fly home.
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