Pro-Russian looters pulled Tesco binoculars from British MH17 victim's suitcase - but threw them back because they were broken

Looters have robbed the bodies of belongings of victims of the MH17
jet, including fanatical Newcastle United fan John Alder, after the
passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday.

Some 298 people were aboard the Boeing 777-200 when it was blasted out of the sky by pro-Russian rebel forces.

A
freelance journalist at the scene discovered Mr Alder's body outside
the village of Grabovo within hours of the disaster and saw that his
belongings had been disturbed.

John Alder's body was found by a freelance journalist outside the
village of Grabovo after pro-Russian separatist rebels looted his
belongings. Heavily armed men stole cash, cameras and credit cards from
victims

Heavily armed pro-Russian separatists were observed at the scene
of the disaster rifling though the belongings of the people on board
flight MH17 which was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday afternoon

Eyewitnesses have reported that 'terrorist death-hunters' have been stealing the victims' cash and jewellery

Demjen
Doroschenko said: 'I saw John Alder's body and took a picture of a
medicine box he had with him. You could see they had been through his
things.

'He had a pair of Tesco binoculars with him in a case.
They had pulled the binoculars out of the case. But when they say the
glass had been broken they threw them back because they weren't any good
for them.'

Mr Doroschenko told The Sun: 'They were rifling
belongings with torches 50 yards away. Once they'd gone I went over to
the body where they had been and found wallets left open, purses empty
and papers all over the ground. It's awful.'

Anton Gerashchenko,
an advisor to the Kiev government, said: 'I have received information
that terrorist death-hunters were collecting not only cash and jewellery
of the crashed Boeing dead passengers but also the credit cards of the
victims.'