Kathryn Westcott
@KWestcott01
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Senior news editor @BBCNews
Greenwich, London
Joined July 2009
Sgt Onistrat wears a helmet a size too small - it belonged to his son Ostap, 20, who was killed in a drone strike. The father is still in the throes of grief. Vivid front line report from @sommervilletv
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Quentin Sommerville joins troops pushing eastward from a recaptured village in Donetsk.
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Congratulations to a great @BBCNews team including @TheJohnSudworth & @ProducerKathy and @KWestcott01 #amnestymediaawards #Uyghur
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READ: “The cost of the Ukraine war for one Russian regiment”: https://t.co/y7f5PFM8FX
@MarkUrban01’s detailed analysis of various open sources, tracing the 331st’s tour of Ukraine during the Russian invasion, commissioned by @KWestcott01 & produced by James Percy #Newsnight
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The decline of the "elite" 331st regiment can be measured in loss to machinery and personnel.
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‘During the thousands of texts and hundreds of voice notes he sent me over five months, not once did he use Martine's name’ - great reporting by @BBCNawal
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Farouk Abdulhak, who fled to Yemen after the death of a student in London, admits his involvement.
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‘it is a stricken landscape, where trenches lie exposed to Russian observation posts and surveillance drones. Russian eyes are always watching, waiting for an opportunity .. ‘ another belter from @sommervilletv
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The Ukrainian stronghold where, despite months of vicious attacks, the Russians have gained just 10 metres.
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Really interesting read about relationship between long covid and smell/taste ‘I don’t eat for fun any more’. From my colleague @KirstieJBrewer
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Thousands of people who had coronavirus face yet another Christmas with the smell disorder parosmia.
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Another little beauty from @sommervilletv ‘This is a war where Ukrainian fathers and sons serve on the same frontlines. And this was how it was for 22-year-old Eugene Gromadskyi - at least at the very beginning…’
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Quentin Sommerville traces the journey of a 22-year-old from the start of the war to being awarded the highest honour for bravery.
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“Gangs set the clock here in Port-au-Prince. Morning rush hour - between 0600 and 0900 - is peak kidnapping time. Many are snatched from the streets on their way to work…” @OrlaGuerin @wburema @goktay and Andre Paultre
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Orla Guerin reports from Port-au-Prince, where Haitians live in fear of killings, kidnappings and rape.
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Yet again @sommervilletv demonstrates his beady eye for colour detail
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The BBC's Quentin Sommerville is with more than a dozen doctors and nurses who work and live together under fire.
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The Amadea is the most ostentatious trophy claimed by the KleptoCapture, a taskforce set up to pursue Russian oligarchs' "ill-begotten gains”. The BBC was granted exclusive access behind the scenes of a superyacht seizure @williammclennan and @alesbon
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A $325m luxury boat is floating in a US cargo port after the FBI tracked it down in the Pacific.
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‘Richard Hall used to focus on theories about UFOs before starting to push claims about "fabricated terror"’ Another incisive piece by the disinformation powerhouse @mariannaspring
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Manchester Arena survivors are being hounded by conspiracy theorists who claim they are actors.
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Beautifully written by my colleague @mrjonkelly with oversight @mattjroper
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A week travelling on a typical route shows what happens to the country when the buses stop running.
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‘if his aim was to intimidate the women into silence, he would fail’ great story by @jaketacchi and @VickeyArakelyan
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A Russian policeman’s takeaway order helped the group expose his identity, after he threatened and hit them.
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Love the little vignettes from @sommervilletv - like this: ‘The idiosyncrasies of combat medics are legendary. So it should be no surprise that Yuri is wearing nothing but camouflage shorts. He has in his hand a metal detector. "He's looking for gold,"’
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Quentin Sommerville reports from the Donbas front line as Ukraine tries to seize the initiative from Russia.
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‘Sparsh cradles three grey pebbles in his palm. They are precious to him - his only physical link to the land where his ancestors once lived.’ Beautifully written by @kavpuri
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Sparsh's family fled in terror 75 years ago - it wasn't spoken about until his grandfather agreed to talk.
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‘One of the gang had sent the receptionist’s colleague inappropriate messages on the hotel’s out-of-hours iPhone, including a “dick pic”. They saved his number as “Weirdo”’
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The celebrity burglaries that netted £26m - and how the police pieced then together.
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The BBC understands that General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the former head of UK Special Forces, was briefed about the alleged unlawful killings but did not pass on the evidence to the Royal Military Police, @BBCPanorama
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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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‘But then there is a shot. It strikes somebody else. A man fights different urges in such moments. The bullet wound in his side is agonisingly painful. But crying out would be fatal. He will lie as still as his murdered comrades.’ @fergalkeane47
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The extraordinary story of the sole survivor from a group of Ukrainians captured by Russian soldiers.
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Extraordinary that this police watchdog reports has yet to be published. But exclusive details here from @mcdermottsarah
https://t.co/PKuadn2rO0
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DCI Neil Hibberd helped investigate the murder of David Tebbutt and the kidnap of his wife Jude.
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Thousands of photos of Uyghurs and a vast cache of documents hacked from police servers in China’s Xinjiang and passed to BBC show extent of Beijing’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration @TheJohnSudworth @ProducerKathy
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Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China's Uyghur detention system.
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