Journalist dies
Times, 10 December 1990, page 2Simon O'Dwyer-Russell, the defence and diplomatic journalist, died of a heart attack at the weekend, aged 29. He had worked since 1986 for the Sunday Telegraph and previously for Jane's Defence Weekly. His report on a massacre of captured Swapo guerrillas in Namibia provided a world exclusive. Mr O'Dwyer-Russell, who underwent heart surgery earlier this year, leaves a widow.
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