Man who killed Osama bin Laden is revealed

ITV News Washington Correspondent Robert Moore reports:

The man who killed Osama bin Laden has been revealed for the first time as US Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill.

The 38-year-old shot the 9/11 mastermind three times in the head during a raid on his secret lair in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.

Usually such information would be kept secret but O'Neill has chosen to waive his right to anonymity to give an interview to Fox television later this month.

O'Neill is one of the most decorated SEALs ever, having been honoured 52 times and completing more than 400 missions.

He has even been portrayed on film in Hollywood movies Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips and Lone Survivor.

But the "family man" from Montana now works as a motivational speaker telling others about his incredible experiences.

By going public the former SEAL faces being frozen out from the elite force which he worked in for 16 years.

In an interview with the MailOnline, his father Rob O'Neill said: "People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us because Rob is going public.

"I say I'll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us."

O'Neill describes how he instructed his wife to have a bag ready in case they had to flee at any time.

Last year she said she was looking into changing their children's names and "deleting him from their lives for safety reasons".

The SEAL also revealed the reason he went into the forces was a teenage romance gone wrong.

He later went on be deployed on more than a dozen tours of duty in active combat, in four different warzones, including Iraq and Afghanistan.