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Channel 4 News Correspondent covering Wales & west of England
Jun 15, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
BREAK: Met Police accused of ‘institutional corruption’ in a devastating report by the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel ‘The Met Police placed its concern for its own reputation above the public interest when it concealed from the family of Daniel Morgan & from the wider public the failings in the 1st murder investigation & the role of corrupt officers....’ #DanielMorgan
May 18, 2021 11 tweets 6 min read
NEW: Extraordinary statement from Daniel Morgan Independent Panel [set up 8 yrs ago to investigate, inter alia, police conduct re one of Britain’s most notorious unsolved murders] - accuses Home Office of ‘unnecessary’ intervention effectively in breach of Panel’s independence “An outrage”

Statement from Daniel Morgan’s family who’ve described the move by the Home Secretary Priti Patel as ‘unwarranted interference’ and a ‘kick in the teeth’ for the family ⬇️ @AlastairMorgan
Apr 25, 2021 52 tweets 20 min read
NEW: The UK Government & Public Health England deny ‘intercepting’ Covid-19 tests last March, supposedly destined for Wales, to prioritise England

It follows accusations made in private emails now released to @Channel4News

UPDATE on previous 'mystery of collapsed deal’ thread I began looking into this in March 2020. After several FOI requests [all initially refused], an appeal [refused] & a complaint to the @ICOnews [resolved],13 months on, some details have finally been disclosed to me. Bear with me pls: it’s complex, but hopefully provides more info
Feb 3, 2021 29 tweets 16 min read
Thread.

Over the last 10 days I’ve been hearing accounts from NHS staff [in south Wales] who’ve been repeatedly abused online and accused of peddling fake news about the pandemic.
Here’s a flavour of what they’ve had to face

[🎥@daibaker Producer @c4marcus] “F*** off you shill”

For some doctors like @dr_mattmorgan, whose media appearances have offered important glimpses inside the world of intensive care @UHWCriticalCare throughout the pandemic, this is what some of that abuse looks like
May 6, 2020 34 tweets 7 min read
‘There was a terrible feeling of dread’

Dr David Hepburn @apnoeaboy a month on from our last interview

The ICU consultant’s latest compelling account of treating Covid-19 patients.

Rarely have I interviewed a better communicator in any field of work

In my latest interview with David Hepburn, from @AneurinBevanUHB Royal Gwent Hospital:

• How patients are ventilated
• Physical toll of ICU
• ‘Intensive care delirium’
• Relative youth of patients
• ‘Constant fear that one day it might be one of us’

Mar 30, 2020 33 tweets 16 min read
THREAD

The mystery of the ‘collapsed deal’ between the @WelshGovernment and a Covid-19 testing company.

I’ve been trying to find out a little more... On Sat @BBCWalesNews reported that a deal had collapsed which would have seen the Welsh Government provided with an extra 5000 #COVIDー19 tests per day by an unnamed company...