Journalist who specialises in crime but also writes about everything from politics and international affairs to architecture, civil engineering and shipping, with the odd sport article thrown in. Career highlights include covering the Rose West murder trial (and attending a Fred West-related seance with the legendary medium Nella Jones), interviewing the co-founder of The Crips on Death Row (he was later executed on the orders of Governor Schwarzenegger), meeting Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, interviewing a Lakota chief on a Native American reservation in South Dakota and travelling to Argentina to visit a former torture centre and interview the chief prosecutor in the Dirty Wars trial.