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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bomb-hero-widow-claims-mod-coverup.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid was killed while defusing a bomb in Afghanistan" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-bomb-hero-widow-claims-mod-coverup.jpg" alt="Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid was killed while defusing a bomb in Afghanistan"/></a></p>
<p>The widow of bomb disposal hero Olaf Schmid has criticised the inquest into his death and accused Army chiefs of covering up the &#8220;true reasons&#8221; he died.</p>
<p>Christina Schmid, 35, told the News of the World she felt &#8220;betrayed&#8221; by the Ministry of Defence.</p>
<p>The soldier &#8211; known as Oz &#8211; died in Helmand Province on October 31, 2009, defusing his third home-made bomb of the day, just hours before he was due to begin a fortnight&#8217;s holiday.</p>
<p>The Staff Sergeant was posthumously awarded the George Cross.</p>
<p>At an inquest into his death held in his home town of Truro, Cornwall, this week Coroner Emma Carlyon recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.</p>
<p>She added nothing could have prevented the 30-year-old&#8217;s &#8220;catastrophic injuries&#8221; sustained when the IED blast threw his body 150ft into the air.</p>
<p>Mrs Schmid told the newspaper: &#8220;The inquest was futile and rushed. They didn&#8217;t seem to want to look into the true reasons for his death.</p>
<p>&#8220;All they wanted to talk about was what happened to his body parts when I have always been more concerned about what was happening in his brain leading up to that point.&#8221;</p>
<p>She added that a fainting fit the soldier had before his death was caused by exhaustion.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;I feel betrayed &#8211; but I should have learned by now that the MoD is nothing more than an institution which covers its back and does what&#8217;s easiest.&#8221;</p>
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