Trustee for Scotland’s leading social care provider. https://www.turningpointscotland.com

Co-presenter of TV crime show: #DWCrimeFiles and host of The Doorstep Murder podcast. Writer, broadcaster, producer on various outlets including BBC News, BBC Radio 4, The Times, BBC iplayer The Big Cases. Also Health specialist, event moderator and lecturer.

With over ten years’ experience in high-profile Investigations, I have reported for BBC Panorama, BBC Scotland Investigates and Disclosure. During that time, I delivered numerous documentaries and news exclusives – exposing fraud, corruption and abuse. It requires editorial judgement and the help of my legal background in delicate and complex situations. Also, robust interviewing, secret filming and holding those in power to account. Some of the documentaries fed into policy changes and official inquiries.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ywhjs

Social Affairs Reporter Specialised in coverage of drugs, prostitution, prisons, homelessness, gangs, crime, social deprivation, legal affairs, refugees, asylum seekers, children, disability, carers, trafficking, sex abuse, arranged marriage, radicalisation. Foreign CoverageRussia: filmed with children who survived the Beslan school massacre in Southern Russia and how the lessons of the Dunblane massacre could help with their recovery.Niger: famine coverage Pakistan, Kashmir: earthquake recovery, searching for a lost child and reaching remote areas where no food aid had reachedThailand: experiencing the effects of climate change in coastal villages now lost to the sea. Using this illustrate the potential affects of global warming in lower lying parts of the world.Nigeria: Commonwealth games bidDemocratic Republic of Congo: Opening up the world of Congolese refugees (detailed below)Malawi: investigating what happens to Government aid money (BBC documentary, BBC Scotland Investigates: The Malawi Millions) Ukraine: Website fraud Ghana: election coverage for BBC World Service Spain: looking at how the Scottish Independence referendum is influenced by the Spanish position on Catalonia Congo to Motherwell Documentary - winner of the Amnesty International UK Nations and Regions Award 2008 https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/amnesty-announces-media-awards-2008-winners Produced, Directed, wrote and presented a documentary following two families who had fled war in Congo and were about to come and start a new life as refugees in Scotland. Election and political ReportingProviding live, eye-witness reporting and analysis for all Scottish and UK elections since 1999 as well as the EU referendum and the Scottish Independence referendum.