Dan Warburton
The Mirror
Christine Keeler's conviction for perjury is one of Britain's most infamous sex scandals which rocked the Tory Government and forced war minister John Profumo to stand down. But for 60 years it has cast a shadow over the life of her son, Seymour Platt, who had to live with the devastating fall-out of the affair. Through his contacts, Dan secured an exclusive interview with Seymour at his home in Longford, Ireland, in which he revealed his campaign to have his mother posthumously cleared. He told how a 200-page dossier had been submitted to the Criminal Case Review Commission and claimed her conviction was a tool to discredit her in the wake of the scandal. And with interviews with his legal team - including one of the world's leading human rights barristers - Dan told how secret documents sealed by the John Major Government could be key to securing a pardon.
2) MY REGRETS
Dan's interview with cocaine mule Roger Clarke is the culmination of six years of tireless work covering the staggering story of the world's most unlikely traffickers. Ever since the pensioner was arrested in Lisbon along with his frail wife, Susan, Dan has secured exclusive after exclusive on their bid to flood Europe with more than £1million of Class A drugs. From prison cell letters in their Portuguese cells, to interviewing Susan behind bars to reveal her cancer battle, the stories put the couple's claims of innocence under the microscope. Now back on British soil, Dan tracked Roger down to a Morrisons cafe in Kent, where he told for the first time how he was heartbroken by his wife's death in prison and claimed his human rights had been breached.
3) WHY WAS MONSTER FREE TO KILL OUR GIRL?
Leah Croucher's brutal murder in 2019 shone a light on the probation service's failure to track some of the UK's most dangerous sex offenders. For four years the teenager's decapitated body lay undiscovered after wanted rapist Neil Maxwell snatched her from the street. Leah's parents declined to speak after her body was found in 2023 - but broke their silence in an exclusive interview with Dan to reveal their devastating battle for answers. In an in-depth and moving chat, they revealed how Leah's disappearance and police blunders had been too much for her brother, Haydon, who took his own life. And in a series of exclusive interviews, they told how they blamed Maxwell for killing both their children - while demanding the Government introduce sweeping changes to stop future tragedies.