tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:07:43 +0000Investigative Journalist and Television Producerhttp://adriangatton.com/noreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)Blogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-2480765817525671135Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +00002010-04-03T13:54:16.194+01:00SvengalisHoaxersCrimeConfidence Tricksters My Boyfriend the MI5 Hoaxer5th February 2010 First Cuton Channel 4 The tale of a modern-day Svengali. Nineteen-year-old Oxford jewellery shop assistant Leanne McCarthy found herself trapped in a modern nightmare of kidnap, fear and mind control when she met 23-year-old Wayne Gouveia, a sophisticated conman with a track record of duping young women. Wayne, who worked in a whisky shophttp://adriangatton.com/2009/10/my-boyfriend-mi5-hoaxer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-5735316973286762257Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +00002009-10-26T12:09:54.781ZCrimeCutting EdgeThe Millionaire and the Murder Mansion9th April 2009 (forthcoming)Cutting Edgeon Channel 4In August 2008, a devastating fire raged at a Shropshire mansion. As the flames engulfed Osbaston House, mystery surrounded the disappearance of Christopher Foster, his wife Jill and 15-year-old daughter Kirstie. What started out as a fire became a double-murder, suicide and arson investigation that would http://adriangatton.com/2009/03/millionaire-and-murder-mansion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-6130104298717508355Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +00002008-10-25T10:56:11.686+01:00BusinessOligarchsMandelson named in spy files on oligarchBy Adrian Gatton and Robert Mendick24 October 2008Evening Standard (London)BUSINESS secretary Lord Mandelson's relationship with the Russian oligarch at the centre of the "yachtgate" scandal is detailed in secret government intelligence files, the Evening Standard can reveal. A source has told the Standard that Lord Mandelson's name features repeatedly in http://adriangatton.com/2008/10/mandelson-named-in-spy-files-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-239259513414276242Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:00:00 +00002009-10-26T11:14:24.062ZSvengalisHoaxersThe fantasist of 9/11By Adrian Gatton12 September 2008Daily MailThe story of Tania Head's escape from the Twin Towers captivated America and made her a heroine among survivors. Just one problem - she wasn't even there that day.During the years following the 9/11 attacks, many stories emerged of triumph, tragedy and heroism. But one story stood out. Tania Head was one of only 19 people to survive http://adriangatton.com/2008/09/fantasist-of-911.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-5341229342617437599Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:00:00 +00002009-10-26T11:19:57.298ZSvengalisHoaxersCutting EdgeThe 9/11 Faker11 September 2008Cutting Edgeon Channel 4This programme tells the extraordinary story of Tania Head, one of the world's most audacious fakers. In the years following the 9/11 attacks, many stories emerged of triumph, tragedy and heroism. But one story stood out. Tania Head, one of only 19 people at or above the point of impact to survive, who also lost her fiancé in the attacks.As http://adriangatton.com/2008/09/cutting-edge-911-faker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-2390973367589009793Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:00:00 +00002009-04-01T00:22:05.397+01:00Cutting EdgeWho Killed the Playboy Earl?7 February 2008Cutting EdgeChannel 4When Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, went missing from his luxury hotel in Cannes on 5 November 2004, it inspired a press frenzy that exposed a frothy mix of glamour, vice, drink, drugs and fallen aristocracy.Wayward lifeThe press exposed the lifestyle of the 66-year old earl – 'Atty' to his friends – who held http://adriangatton.com/2008/02/who-killed-playboy-earl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-4748548029025118519Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 +00002009-10-26T12:18:27.940ZPrivate EyesBusinessEspionageSocial EngineeringDirty Little Secrets: Four spy stories from the business world 1 February 2008The Money Programmeon BBC2The temptation to gain an illegal advantage on your business competitors has never been higher. Companies now routinely employ private detectives to find out just what their competitors are up to.In the first of a new series, the Money Programme's Max Flint lifts the lid on a murky world of http://adriangatton.com/2008/01/money-programme-dirty-little-secrets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-2808410738583148531Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:00:00 +00002007-06-14T19:57:35.557+01:00BusinessThe AA: Rescue or Wrong Turn?8 June 2007The Money Programmeon BBC TwoAs private equity firms set their sights on bigger and bigger targets - including high-street favourites like Boots - the Money Programme looks at the City's new whizz kids and one of the most controversial business practices of recent times. The film examines the buy-out of the Automobile Association (AA) and asks whether http://adriangatton.com/2007/06/money-programme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-7786872310806551764Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:00:00 +00002010-04-03T13:59:00.472+01:00Offshore MoneyBusinessRhodri PhilippsThe Aristo, a Workers' Revolt and the Missing MillionsBy Keith Dovkants and Adrian Gatton19 February 2006Evening Standard (London)The free-spending British heir to an ancient title is under investigation in Germany over a company he acquiredTo his many friends on the polo circuit, the Hon Rhodri Philipps is the consummate owner-player. His team, Prodigal, often includes leading professional Jack http://adriangatton.com/2007/02/aristo-workers-revolt-and-missing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-116541522557363554Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:00:00 +00002007-02-19T23:12:12.869ZOligarchsIs The Charming Mr Cherney Just One Oligarch Too Far?By Keith Dovkants and Adrian Gatton6 December 2006Evening Standard (London)Banned from the US, dogged by Russian mafia rumours and facing fraud charges, this is the billionaire eyeing a mansion in London and a Premiership football club.There was an especially disappointed fan amongst those watching Chelsea beat Levski Sofia 2-0 in the Championshttp://adriangatton.com/2006/12/is-charming-mr-cherney-just-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-116485195480644481Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:00:00 +00002007-02-19T23:13:19.383ZOligarchsPolonium-Spuren bei BeresowskiBy Sabine Rennefanz29 November 2006Berliner ZeitungLONDON - Es war ein überraschender Fund. Im Fall des ermordeten russischen Ex-Agenten Alexander Litwinenko hat Scotland Yard jetzt im Büro des Milliardärs Boris Beresowski Spuren der Substanz Polonium 210 gefunden ..A German newspaper article analysing the death of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, http://adriangatton.com/2006/11/polonium-spuren-bei-beresowski.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-116352710811655988Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:00:00 +00002007-02-19T20:35:35.084ZTurkish MafiaThe Susurluk LegacyBy Adrian GattonNov/Dec 2006Druglink MagazineTen years ago, a horrific car accident grimly illuminated how Turkish state officials colluded with drug barons to traffic drugs into Europe and Britain. Adrian Gatton investigates how corruption has smoothed the path of heroin from Afghanistan into the UK.ONE fateful evening, on November 3, 1996, a black Mercedes 600 pulled away http://adriangatton.com/2006/11/susurluk-legacy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-116195628563065367Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:00:00 +00002007-02-19T20:36:49.228ZOligarchsShe looks like any ordinary woman in London, but at 30 this Kazakhstani is set to be the first female oligarchBy Keith Dovkants and Adrian Gatton26 October 2006Evening StandardBorat, eat your heart out. This young woman, with her elegantly understated outfit and designer handbag, is about to prove the zany comedian has got it all wrong about Kazakhstan. Mounissa Chodieva, like everyone else from http://adriangatton.com/2006/10/she-looks-like-any-ordinary-woman-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-114356446573649999Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:00:00 +00002006-09-09T22:37:18.843+01:00Aberfan: The Untold Story 14 September 2006On BBC OneDocumentary examining the tragedy which struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan in 1966, when a mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school, claiming the lives of 116 children and 28 adults, becoming the world's first televised disaster. At first the Labour Government had seemed anxious to help, but their failure to understand the village's http://adriangatton.com/2006/09/aberfan-untold-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-115144419876529732Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:00:00 +00002009-10-26T12:20:31.683ZPrivate EyesBusinessSex IndustryStrip Club WarsSex in the 90s: Lap Dance War28 June 2006Channel 4 Television Naked spies.Private eyes.Council-imposed underpants.A romp through the dirty war to control American-style striptease in Britain.The 1990s saw the rise of lap dancing in Britain. Giant corporations opened strip clubs up and down the country, fundamentally changing British attitudes to sex. Lap Dance War tells the behind-the-scenes http://adriangatton.com/2006/06/sex-in-90s-lap-dance-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-114765589114682858Mon, 22 May 2006 11:00:00 +00002006-09-01T17:18:06.590+01:00IraqDispatches: Battle Fatigue 22 May 2006Channel 4 TelevisionWith thousands of British troops now being sent to Afghanistan, Dispatches investigates whether the British army is losing the battle at home.Andrew Gilligan (pictured) discovers disturbing new evidence of how wounded Iraq veterans are being abandoned, how army recruitment has collapsed and the lengths to which the Ministry of Defence has http://adriangatton.com/2006/05/dispatches-battle-fatigue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-114355831488095182Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:00:00 +00002007-02-19T20:40:09.461ZTurkish MafiaThese men flooded the UK with heroin. Now, the story of their strange deal with CustomsBy Ian Cobain, Adrian Gatton and Michael White28 March 2006The GuardianMembers of an international crime gang were allowed to move to Britain while flooding the country with heroin because their leader had secretly worked as an informer for Customs & Excise, according to evidence brought before an immigration http://adriangatton.com/2006/03/these-men-flooded-uk-with-heroin-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-111402143021724791Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:00:00 +00002009-10-26T12:01:40.027ZSvengalisCrimeConfidence TrickstersCutting EdgeThe Black WidowCutting EdgeChannel 4 Television29 June 2005"This woman is every man's nightmare, the most dangerous woman I have ever met. For a decade she has targeted men sexually, financially and physically; they can sleep safe tonight knowing that she has been taken off the streets." - Sussex Police statement.In December 2003, Dena Thompson was convicted of murdering her husband by poisoning.http://adriangatton.com/2005/06/cutting-edge-black-widow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-112586983556841360Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:00:00 +00002007-02-19T23:30:13.233ZGangsRoss Kemp on GangsSky One13 June 2005Part of a three-part series about world gang culture. In this episode Ross Kemp travels to New Zealand to meet members of the notorious Maori gang, the Mongrel Mob and their rivals the Black Power.Associate Producer: Adrian GattonProducer/Director: Jonathan Joneshttp://adriangatton.com/2005/06/ross-kemp-on-gangs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-111844901835654637Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:00:00 +00002007-02-19T23:21:02.589ZNew Scramble for AfricaBriton named as buyer of Darfur oil rights David Leigh and Adrian Gatton10 June 2005The GuardianA millionaire British businessman, Friedhelm Eronat, was named last night as the purchaser of oil rights in the Darfur region of Sudan, where the regime is accused of war crimes and where millions of tribespeople are alleged to have been forced to flee, amid mass rapes or murders ...http://adriangatton.com/2005/06/briton-named-as-buyer-of-darfur-oil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-111844980982535324Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:00:00 +00002009-10-26T11:41:00.776ZNew Scramble for AfricaBriton involved in Sudan oil drill9 June 2005Channel 4 NewsA Channel 4 News investigation has discovered that the Khartoum government has signed a 25-year contract with a consortium to drill for oil in southern Sudan. And the man behind the deal is a British citizen. Jonathan Miller reports.What a place to be looking for oil.Say Darfur, we think genocide, ethnic cleansing. But to Khartoum and itshttp://adriangatton.com/2005/06/briton-involved-in-sudan-oil-drill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-111729413207988387Thu, 26 May 2005 11:00:00 +00002010-04-03T14:07:43.677+01:00New Scramble for AfricaHe is at the centre of the new scramble for Africa but few have heard of him. A bitter struggle with his former lawyer, however, has opened the door on the remarkable life of Friedhlem EronatSecret World of the Chelsea Oil TycoonBy Adrian Gatton26 May 2005Evening StandardFriedhelm Eronat is one of the world's most successful oil dealmakers. He is also one of the most secretive men in Britain. He http://adriangatton.com/2005/05/secret-world-of-chelsea-oil-tycoon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-111331561804050082Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:00:00 +00002007-02-19T22:52:10.630ZOligarchsReubens sue Russian oligarch for £159m in row over metal dealBy Adrian Gatton and Brendan Malkin12 April, 2005Evening StandardBillionaires Simon and David Reuben are to sue Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, recently listed as Britain's sixth richest man, for $300m (£159m) over a disputed alumium trading venture.http://adriangatton.com/2005/04/reubens-sue-russian-oligarch-for-159m.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-111331488704039823Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:00:00 +00002005-05-23T20:06:04.326+01:00New Scramble for AfricaMugabe's party raised millions from British residents, Foreign Office toldBy Mark Olden and Adrian GattonIndependent on Sunday27 March 2005Allegations have come to light that a businessman has raised millions of pounds from British residents towards the costs of Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF re-election campaign, The Independent on Sunday has learnt. And, despite European Union sanctions on Zimbabwe, http://adriangatton.com/2005/03/mugabes-party-raised-millions-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10778360.post-111331525910405885Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:00:00 +00002007-02-19T23:14:15.993ZOligarchsOleg Deripaska faces $300m claim in fallout from aluminium wars14 March 2005Metal BulletinFour dealmakers at the cutting edge of Russia’s aluminium privatisations allegedly met in London in 1995 to join hands as partners in an exciting new venture ...http://adriangatton.com/2005/03/oleg-deripaska-faces-300m-claim-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian Gatton)0