Who is Pete Sawyer?
  
Pete Sawyer has been working as an investigative print and television journalist for more than 15 years.

He read Earth Sciences at the University of London but quickly gained an appetite for journalism through editing the college magazine. After graduation he went on to study periodical journalism at the London College of Printing.

He became a trade journalist, working for Printing World, but quickly specialised in investigative articles. At Printing World he won several in-house awards and was commended for his investigative feature writing skills.
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In 1991 he left trade journalism to work freelance for the Mail on Sunday’s City Desk, where he specialised in detailed financial investigations and corporate fraud.

In 1992 he started investigating the ‘Arms to Iraq’ scandal, and in 1993 published a damning article on the affair in BusinessAge magazine.

The article revealed for the first time the true and horrific extent of the illegal network which had been supplying Iraq with everything from howitzer shells to complete ammunition factories.
In 1997 he became a regular writer for the UK fortnightly magazine, Punch, working on a succession of investigative stories such as 'the Mandelson Files' – revealing for the first time that Peter Mandelson had obtained a loan for his Notting Hill house – and the 'Scandal of the High Street Banks' – an investigation into the High Street banks’ policy of dumping their customers’ confidential records on the streets for all to read.
He pursued a parallel career in television, researching and producing programmes on human rights in the Sudan and China, ‘cowboy’ liquidators, private military companies, and the hidden finances of the former leader of Westminster Council, Dame Shirley Porter.
In the UK he has worked for the BBC, Channel Four and Channel Five.

He has also worked for foreign media organisations, including Austrian State Broadcasting, ORF, for which he produced a series of feature reports on such varied topics as voter apathy in the 2001 General Election, the causes of the Burnley race riots, funding in the NHS, Islamic radicals in London, and Britain’s aging Magnox nuclear power stations.
In April 2002 he published his first non-fiction book: ‘Gotcha!’ – the story of Britain’s largest ever cash robbery. The book was a collaboration with former bank-robbers John and Ronnie Knight, and former Flying Squad officer Peter Wilton.

Working with award-winning David Monaghan Productions, he co-produced a television documentary based on the book, which was screened on Channel Five in December 2002.
 

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