Hannah O'Grady
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Investigative journalist. Producer for @BBCPanorama Signal: 00447714956936 Email: [email protected]
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Joined October 2011
The latest instalment of our investigation into UK Special Forces killings. If you have any information you’d like to share on SAS operations or the subsequent investigations, you can contact me confidentiality via email or Signal (see my profile bio)
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Internal emails seen by the BBC show top special forces officers were aware of concerns over killings.
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Special Forces blocked 2,000 credible asylum claims from Afghan commandos, MoD confirms
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Officers appear to have rejected every application from former Afghan commandos who fought alongside them.
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BBC report on unlawful SAS killings 'broadly accurate', MoD concluded
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Officials wrote a letter saying a Panorama report on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan was accurate, despite public denials.
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"...to the outcome, then the group would be bound to bring this to others' attention."
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In one prophetic statement, they wrote: "should a major fire tragedy, with loss of life, occur between now and 2017 in, for example, a residential care facility or a purpose built block of flats, where the matters which had been raised here, were found to be contributory...
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Sir David Amess led the group of MPs who wrote to the government in 2014 they were "at a loss to understand, how you had concluded that credible and independent evidence, which had life safety implications, was NOT considered to be urgent"
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Panorama exposed repeated warnings to the government that went unheeded -
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"Today's buildings have a much higher content of combustible material," read one warning.
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In 2018 Panorama reported the insulation used at Grenfell Tower produced by Celotex had never passed fire safety testing. Today, the Grenfell Inquiry's report describes the company's "unscrupulous" manipulation of the fire test and "systematic dishonesty".
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The insulation used to refurbish Grenfell should never have been on the building, BBC Panorama finds.
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As Panorama reported back in 2017, the Grenfell Inquiry finds the government failed to properly outlaw the use of flammable materials on the facades of buildings
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The Grenfell Inquiry report is damning. Its Chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick says each of the deaths at the Tower were avoidable. He cites "dishonesty and greed" of those companies involved and decades of government failure that fatally let down the residents of Grenfell Tower.
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Killer Secrets @BBCSpotlightNI. Available @BBCiPlayer from 6AM Tuesday
As Troubles inquests are shut down @BBCSpotlightNI investigates why the government stepped in to stop the release of information about the involvement of state agents in murders by Mid-Ulster UVF. Testimony from inside the gang raises new questions. Tue BBC1 & I-player
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We first reported how Gwyn Jenkins locked away evidence of war crimes in a Special Forces safe back in November last year. He’d received several warnings that the SAS were carrying out executions https://t.co/ttuk1l7SCd He’s now set to become the PM’s National Security Advisor.
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Gen Gwyn Jenkins was warned in 2011 that soldiers were claiming to have killed unarmed Afghans, BBC reveals.
Gwyn Jenkins to become next National Security Advisor. @BBCPanorama have reported that Jenkins is the UKSF officer N1785, who is deeply involved in allegations of extrajudicial killing by UKSF in Afghanistan. 🧵👇 https://t.co/zZmc1MidB0
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🚨📢Today, we are launching Unredacted, a new research unit that investigates and documents secretive UK state and corporate practices in the context of national security. Read more about Unredacted’s work here: https://t.co/p2AiPeM3cS
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Veterans minister Johnny Mercer raised serious concerns in government in 2019 about the decision to close an investigation to alleged war crimes by British special forces. New story from me and @HannahOGrady ahead of SAS public inquiry that opens today
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Veterans minister Johnny Mercer suspected UK special forces may have unlawfully killed unarmed Afghans.
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Drug company exposed by The Times for price hiking faces paying £175 million+ back to taxpayers after landmark tribunal decision. Fine of £84 million and gov expected to take legal action to recoup c.£92m in damages. 3 other cases are with the tribunal https://t.co/MxqHJ4yt3W 1/3
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Watch @BBCPanorama now and find out how £655 million of Thurrock council’s cash ended up being pocketed by a millionaire who bought a yacht, a jet and a fleet of super cars @TBIJ
What happens when a council gambles a billion pounds and loses? Panorama’s The Millionaire who Cheated a Council is on BBC iPlayer now and on BBC One at 8pm https://t.co/NxxCa4svOL
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For the first time the Ministry of Defence confirms British Special Forces are at the centre of a war crimes inquiry, which is investigating alleged executions and murder of civilians in Afghanistan
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The confirmation follows years of BBC reports that the SAS killed scores of unarmed people in the conflict.
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Are humans violent by nature? Have they descended from inherently violent ancestors? My latest for @newscientist on @kit_opie's thought-provoking pre-print exploring violence in primate ancestors.
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An evolutionary analysis of behavioural traits across primate species may shed light on the question of whether humans are violent by nature
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Honoured to be on this list for the @onewm print award, for our investigation into UK special forces killings in Afghanistan. With @HannahOGrady @KiyyaBaloch @BBCPanorama & Naveed Nazari https://t.co/VRecAQ9zD3
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The extraordinary story of the FBI/MI5 agent who went inside the Real IRA and sent their leader to jail: David Rupert gives his first TV interview to @Jen_O_Leary. Watch Spotlight - I Spy on BBC One Northern Ireland tomorrow at 10.40pm.
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Times investigation latest: Debt collectors working for British Gas have admitted to completely disconnecting families’ heating or electricity when they have been unable to fit a prepayment meter https://t.co/J6LVxXJGPK
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Debt collectors working for British Gas have admitted to completely disconnecting heating or electricity on families when they have been unable to fit a prepaym
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