News of the shooting reached the Foreign Office in London earlier on Sunday. Foreign Office minister William Waldegrave said: “We do not know whether he was killed but we fear he may have been. The Foreign Office say if Mr Croskery’s death is confirmed they will treat it as murder. Courtesy BBC NewsIn contextDouglas Croskery had been working in Kuwait for only a few weeks at the time of the Iraqi invasion in 1990. Foreign Office minister William Waldegrave said it “added barbarism to the original crime”.