THE mother of a cameraman shot dead in the Gaza Strip hopes the world TV premiere of his film will help bring "justice".

Award-winning journalist James Miller, 34, was killed last May while making a documentary, Death in Gaza, about Palestinian children.

His mother, Eileen Miller, 65, who is headteacher at Our Lady of Grace School, Charlton Road, Charlton, hopes last night's Channel 4 screening of the film will support calls for the truth behind his death.

She said: "We hope it raises awareness that justice has not yet been done. It's unfinished business. We can't move on and start celebrating what was great about James until someone admits to his killing."

The Israeli military police is expected to conclude its investigation next month.

Just over a year ago, Mr Miller had been with his crew on a veranda in the Rafah refugee camp after filming for the day. They were about to leave the house with a pre-arranged signal to Israeli soldiers 100m away in their armoured personnel carrier.

In the closing sequences of Death in Gaza, videotaped by a local TV newsman, the crew are shown wearing helmets with "TV" on them and Press flak jackets while shining a torch onto a white flag. And they call out they are British journalists.

A first shot rings out. And 13 seconds later there is a second shot. A bullet has passed through the front of Mr Miller's neck and he dies almost immediately.

His family say he was murdered. Mrs Miller said: "My son had been in 20 war zones. He was not a likely person to get unstuck by doing the wrong thing. He got shot in a calculated manner by an Israeli soldier who took 13 seconds to aim at him in one of his only exposed parts."

"We can't move on and start celebrating what was great about James until someone admits to his killing."

Eileen Miller

Death in Gaza, which was completed by his reporter Saira Shah, shows the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lives of two 12-year-old boys, Ahmed and Mohammed. The first becomes involved with the paramilitaries after he sees a friend shot dead by an Israeli sniper.

Mrs Miller said: "James's work was always about giving a voice to those whose story would otherwise not be told the oppressed and those suffering conflict.

"He was particularly understanding of children.

"At the end of the film, Ahmed says he doesn't want to work with the paramilitaries anymore and wants to be a cameraman. James undoubtedly had an influence on him. They built up a friendship even though they didn't have a common language."

Mr Miller went to Notre Dame Primary School, in Eglington Road, Woolwich, from the age of seven to nine while his father, Colonel Geoffrey Miller, now 68, was posted with the army at Woolwich Barracks.

He is survived by wife Sophy, 33, and their two children, Alexander, three, and one-year-old Lottie.