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David Jones - Chief foreign writer

David is a vastly experienced feature writer, who regularly produces groundbreaking dispatches covering everything from tsunamis to presidential elections. His work has brought hm a string of accolades, including British Press Awards feature writer of year (twice), British Journalism awards feature writer of year, and What The Papers Say reporter of year.

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The bereaved family he phoned 100 times. The lowly nuns he honoured. How Pope Francis became the 'People's Pope'

26/04/25 01:18

Had he remained with us a little longer, Pope Francis would have been creating the first Gen Z saint at the Vatican this weekend. Ever the modernist (and no doubt aware the high-profile occasion would attract many more young people to Catholicism) he had intended to canonise Carlo Acutis, a British-born teenager who built a website to spread the Gospel before dying from leukaemia at 15....read

How Pope Francis became the People's Pope: The bereaved family he phoned 100 times. The lowly nuns he honoured. And the kiosk seller who served his favourite marshmallow ice cream...
25/04/25 11:06
Instead, the eyes of the world will be on St Peter's Basilica this morning as the pontiff who did so much to restore the Church's scandal-torn reputation is laid to rest.
How the 'Chainsaw President' became the poster boy for a new brand of anti-woke politics sweeping the West
15/04/25 12:44
The apartment door opens on a scene that would scare the living daylights out of an unsuspecting visitor.
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Was Maradona murdered? DAVID JONES, who met the Argentine superstar, has been fiercely sceptical of his family's bid to blame his death on 'negligent' medics. But after hearing new evidence, he's no longer so sure...
29/03/25 12:34
A quarter of a century ago, when he was (supposedly) recovering from cocaine addiction in Cuba, Diego Maradona provided DAVID JONES with an unforgettable audience
Horror movie-obsessed Polish dad who murdered and dismembered pensioner before flaying off his face calmly took his sons to the cinema and CHURCH on the same day he dumped 27 hacked-up body parts at beauty spots
21/03/25 10:03
Mercifully, a busy park in Worsley had been cordoned off when police divers hunting for the dismembered remains of 67-year-old Stuart Everett made their grisliest discovery.
One of Stephen Lawrence's killers 'will ADMIT his involvement' in the racist attack - as he makes a bid for freedom
20/03/25 10:12
David Norris, 48, has always denied being involved in the 1993 murder of the teenager. But as he makes a bid for freedom ahead of a parole hearing, a ruling released revealed this has changed.
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The traveller connection, the Kinahan cartel and the great golden toilet robbery: Incredible story behind unlikely Blenheim Palace heist
18/03/25 11:36
Two of the burglars who stole a golden toilet from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire are now facing long jail sentences - but inconvenient questions remain over the audacious crime .
Hidden messages in the tattoos that adorn gang member inmates of El Salvador's 'hellhole' mega jail
16/02/25 09:37
In bleak photos shared proudly by the presidency of El Salvador, rows of stripped and shaved prisoners, distinguished only by their tattoos, line the corridors of CECOT.
Revealed: The astonishing secrets of the cartel people smugglers. Corrupt US border officers, how they REALLY smuggle 'customers' across the border - and why Trump is GOOD for the business
15/02/25 01:01
While Donald Trump was being cheered at the Super Bowl in New Orleans last Sunday, another high-stakes game was quietly being played out 1,000 miles to the west on the Mexican border.
Inside the prison of the living dead: DAVID JONES is the first British journalist to visit El Salvador's godforsaken 40,000 capacity mega prison... and his account will shake you to the core
08/02/25 12:14
Standing a few feet away from the cage holding 100 perpetrators of savagery - one of 32 mass cells that line Module 8 in the Terrorism Confinement Centre - is a deeply unnerving experience.
How a brickie from the ice-bound Arctic was invited to the inauguration - and could be the key to Trump taking over Greenland
23/01/25 01:56
Enlisting unlikely characters to his inner sanctum has become a Donald Trump trademark. Yet, of all the President's men, surely the zaniest is his new and very unofficial ambassador in the Arctic.
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Stephen Lawrence's father 'could accept' killer David Norris' release 'if he says sorry' as parole hearing granted
31/12/24 09:34
EXCL: David Norris, 48, could be freed in months after he was granted an oral Parole Board hearing which could happen as early as May, the Mail can reveal.
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DAVID JONES: Inside the sordid sex clubs arranging 'Gang Bang Nights' that expose the rotten heart of France... even as the country reels from the details of the mass-rape of Gisele Pelicot
15/12/24 02:03
DAVID JONES on the sleazy sex club just 800 yards from the court hearing the case that's supposed to strike a blow against misogyny in France.
Unmasked: The defiant doctor who prescribed fistfuls of sedatives to the French husband at heart of world's most shocking rape trial... and this is what he has to say for himself
02/12/24 01:55
Dawn breaks over Mazan and in a cobbled square three patients huddle outside a GP's surgery. As the church bells clang, the man they have come to see steps jauntily out of his black Vauxhall Zafira.
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A teenager burned alive. A toddler shot in the head. And a hitman aged 14 paid 50,000 euros for a revenge shooting. How ultra-violent drug gangs are bringing terror to middle-class French towns, as DAVID JONES reveals in this blood-soaked dispatch
25/11/24 02:24
The whistling starts the moment a hooded lookout spots our car, and soon the shrill warning signals echo all around the neighbourhood.
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How 'Nazi raccoons' descended from a pair released by Goering in the 1930s have overrun a German city, wreaking havoc and destroying homes - with enterprising restaurateurs turning them into bratwurst. Our intrepid man tucks in!
08/11/24 10:00
Contradictory as it sounds, re-inventing the raccoon as a gourmet delicacy is being suggested as a solution to the great raccoon invasion of Germany.
The villages in Holland terrorised by wild wolves: How attacks are exploding across Europe thanks to EU laws leading to attacks on pet dogs, ponies, thousands of sheep and even humans
12/10/24 09:40
Dawn had just broken and the two young children were still wearing their orange onesie pyjamas when their mother beckoned them into the field beside their house.
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How the Monster of Avignon defiled a fragile mother while she was awake. DAVID JONES tells the full shocking story for the first time - and how strikingly similar methods were used in a notorious unsolved murder...
20/09/24 05:08
Even after 23 years, her memories of the brutal sex attack remained undimmed. Yet, there were no tears when she saw Dominique Pelicot after almost a quarter of a century.
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DAVID JONES: With breathtaking insouciance, Dominique Pelicot told the court he drugged his wife so 50 men could rape her because he was bored in retirement. He sobbed, but mainly for himself
18/09/24 12:10
Dominique Pelicot came up with another way to while away his spare time in the Provencal village of Mazan - he invited other men to rape his sleeping wife Gisele.
Emotional testimony of grandmother as she takes the stand to face dozens of men accused of violating her while she was drugged by her husband: DAVID JONES witnesses extraordinary courage of dignified 71-year-old at centre of rape case that stunned France
05/09/24 09:15
By her own description she had always been 'a prude' and had only allowed two men to touch her - one of whom was her husband, sitting, shamefaced, to her left in the dock.
Husband 'drugged and raped his wife 200 times before he started inviting scores of other men to his house to take turns having sex with her while she was unconscious'
04/09/24 05:48
The depraved husband accused of drugging his wife to film her being raped by scores of strangers had already drugged and raped her 'at least 200 times' before he began inviting them round.
Depraved husband 'who drugged and filmed his wife being raped by 50 men' covered for his vile crimes by accusing her of having affairs while he was out cycling and playing boules, court hears
04/09/24 12:46
Pelicot, 71, is said to have orchestrated the attacks on his wife between 2011 and 2020. When she complained of an unexplained sexual illness, he suggested she was having an affair.
Team GB's Andy Macdonald - The Eddie the Eagle of skateboarding - reminds grandads such as me that age really is just a number, writes DAVID JONES
07/08/24 11:42
As we awaited the entrance of Team GB 's Andy Macdonald, the oldest ever Olympic skateboarder, a sport usually associated with teenagers, the jokes flew thick and fast.
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'Nutty as a fruitcake', Lancashire lass who's Britain's new superwoman: She stormed to victory in the 800m, now Keely Hodgkinson will treat herself to a Porsche - and maybe another Vuitton bag!
06/08/24 01:26
Oh, the ecstasy - but perhaps even more overwhelmingly: oh the relief! For seldom can any British sportswoman have been under greater pressure than Keely Hodgkinson.
The anger and distress of Stephen Lawrence's father after his ex-wife exhumed their son's body in Jamaica to take him back to Britain - without telling him first
03/08/24 12:34
The video was so grim and distressing that, for a few moments, Neville Lawrence thought his son Stephen's grave had been burgled by the racist gang who stabbed him to death
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Imane Khelif being allowed to fight Angela Carini was one of the most egregious and dangerous Olympic contests since ancient times, writes DAVID JONES
01/08/24 09:23
Bounding into the ring, to a rousing chorus of 'Volare' from the large Italian contingent in the 5,000 crowd, Angela Carina looked every inch a woman
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Tom Daley says he was 'winging it' after winning Olympics silver but for spectators watching his diving, it was a study in harmony, writes DAVID JONES
29/07/24 11:02
As Tom Daley embraced Noah Williams, on the medal podium yesterday, it was unavoidable to compare their preparations with those of the Chinese duo who had consigned them to silver.
Depression and alcohol... Adam Peaty's comeback at the Paris Olympics is still a parable for our times, writes DAVID JONES
28/07/24 10:26
DAVID JONES: Drinking in the atmosphere at the Olympic swimming arena as he prepared to mount his starting platform, Adam Peaty might have reflected that he was already the real winner.
While the final act of the opening ceremony was a triumph, after 210 minutes of tedium and confusion it came far too late. Behind that rictus grin, Macron must be smouldering with humiliation, writes DAVID JONES
27/07/24 09:00
The final act of the opening ceremony was a triumph that showcased France's technological ingenuity and theatrical brilliance, writes Chief Foreign Writer DAVID JONES
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Think hooliganism is in English football's past? The violent carnage I saw in Berlin left me more confused than ever about what it means to be an Englishman, writes DAVID JONES
15/07/24 04:12
How could I share my joy with the young men all around me, who had thrown their German hosts' generous hospitality back in their faces by singing moronic songs about Hitler and bombing Berlin?
I was at Wembley to witness Southgate's darkest hour in 1996 but after a litany of duds, Gareth is our folk hero, writes DAVID JONES
06/07/24 10:21
DAVID JONES: I am one of those who admire Southgate, and my respect for him wouldn't have been diminished even had we lost to Switzerland.
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Inside Jude Bellingham's wild world: From the army of female fans who've found an unlikely target for their X-rated messages... to the truth about his 'girlfriend' and the woman he calls 'The Queen'
30/06/24 01:13
When a promising young Birmingham footballer offered to support a charity that educates impoverished African children, its founder eagerly welcomed him on board.
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The country that convinced me National Service IS right for Britain: Wet blankets are rejected, male and female recruits share bunks and competition is fierce. I'm not sneering any more, writes DAVID JONES
17/06/24 03:59
After closely observing the Swedish model of conscription, upon which Rishi Sunak's plan for national service is said to be based, it seems to have many pluses, writes DAVID JONES.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins is bankrupt, homeless and 'has lost everything': 'Embarrassed' Olympian is sofa-surfing after burning through £13 million - and now faces selling his gold medals, DAVID JONES reveals
14/06/24 04:28
Dismayed by the news that one of Britain's greatest ever Olympians had been declared bankrupt, I had been trying all week to contact Sir Bradley Wiggins and hear his side of this sorry story.
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How a vile diatribe in a Morecambe newspaper led my mother to forsake her heritage, dye her hair blonde and have plastic surgery, says DAVID JONES, who was kept in the dark about her true background
28/05/24 01:47
Almost 30 years have passed since my mother, Phyllis, died from cancer of the brain, and it still hurts my heart to remember how she suffered so bravely through two gruelling but unsuccessful operations.
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Why not even the deaths of 39 migrants who suffocated in a lorry have stopped Vietnamese risking all to reach Britain: It's now the fastest-growing nationality on the small boats... and DAVID JONES visits community where nearly 1 in 10 has left for Europe
26/04/24 09:04
DAVID JONES: A growing number of Vietnamese are either blind to the risks of being trafficked abroad or prepared to take them, and many are living secretly in Britain.
The monkey gangs turning this Thai city into a real-life Planet of the Apes: They've knee-capped market traders, stolen beer from lorries and are terrorising British tourists, writes DAVID JONES
19/04/24 04:25
During a long career, I have come face to face with Afghan warlords, murderous Albanian criminals, and razor-wielding thugs who rule the favela slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Did Roman Polanski drug and rape a teenage British actress or is she a vengeful fantasist? As a French court decides whether the fugitive director was wrong to call Charlotte Lewis a liar for publicly claiming he assaulted her, DAVID JONES investigates
12/04/24 09:00
Charlotte Lewis had only ever acted in end-of-term plays at her school. From nowhere, however, she had been summoned to a one-on-one audition with the great Roman Polanski
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Brave victim describes traumatic attack by bear that went on rampage in pretty mountain town - as critics ask if EU rewilding zealots have lost the plot
24/03/24 03:09
When he shouted, 'Dad, watch out - a bear!' as they cycled together last Sunday, his father Filip ignored him. His reaction was understandable.
Sweden's darkest hour: Tens of thousands are signing up to defend against a full-scale Russian attack. Nuclear bunkers are selling out. DAVID JONES's extraordinary report from Nato's new front line...
15/03/24 12:05
Crouched ready for action, their chilblained hands hovering nervously beside holstered pistols, a band of rookie soldiers face down an enemy platoon, awaiting the order to fire.
This imam had lived in France since he was 12. But after he called the French flag 'satanic', he was arrested and deported back to Tunisia within eight hours. He tells the Mail: It would never happen in Britain!
02/03/24 02:30
Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi found himself confronted by 15 plain-clothes police officers. They had emerged from a convoy of cars and descended without warning on his home in Bagnols-sur-Ceze
Held down and forced to swallow Novichok... That's the most likely explanation for the death of the heroic Alexei Navalny, concludes DAVID JONES following a forensic investigation that suggests Putin's goons were at the scene of the crime
23/02/24 11:47
DAVID JONES: It was an act clearly timed to remind the West of Putin's ruthlessness but also to expunge the one rival capable of marring the celebrations of next month's rigged 'election'.
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My bizarre fortnight in the desert with Body Shop founder Anita Roddick: David Jones hilariously recalls how she regaled him with tales of very rude encounters with African tribes and being fondled by Pacific islanders in her quest for product
20/02/24 05:11
Darkness had descended on the desert and the ritual dance had begun. Vying to win a bride from among the chaste young women encircling them, a band of nomadic tribesmen contorted their faces.
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Was this brilliant doctor murdered by her disturbed brother or her fantasist husband? She was shot through both eyes - now the mystery of her death is tearing her family apart as a podcast pushes a sensational theory...
12/02/24 12:15
A podcast called Ghost Story explores a sensational theory. Naomi Dancy may have been murdered by her husband.
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There WAS something disquieting about my eccentric old colleague Ian Bailey. But do I believe he battered beautiful socialite Sophie Toscan du Plantier to death? I don't think so, writes DAVID JONES
31/01/24 05:11
Ruthlessly ambitious and with an air of arrogance, he boasted of spy contacts at GCHQ but ended up 'hounded to his grave' after being accused of a shocking murder, writes DAVID JONES.
Marcus Rashford's always been one of football's good guys - winning an MBE for his campaigning over free school meals. But now, after a two-day tequila and cocktails bender, those close to him fear the expectations have become too much...
31/01/24 01:58
Having flown to Belfast by private jet Rashford (left) went on a two-day bender, downing tequila shots and cocktails, according to the waitress, Sarah Adair (right).
After spending years in African prisons, Old Etonian and ex-SAS mercenary Simon Mann has something to get off his chest: 'I launched the Wonga Coup after Mrs Thatcher told me to just get on with it'
19/01/24 11:29
It was Lady Thatcher's terse poolside message, Mann says, that cemented his belief that his mission had high-level approval. Had she advised him against it, he might have aborted the venture.
How two female investigators used Nutella, sweets and a dog called Taj to befriend the Ogress of Ardennes... and tease out the dark secrets that finally revealed the terrible fate of Joanna Parrish after 33 tortuous years
20/12/23 10:05
Midway through the three-week trial of Monique Olivier - one of the grisliest and most gripping France has seen - a key witness was drawn into making a disquieting admission.
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The Iceland volcano finally explodes with a primal roar and a giant ball of fire after thousands are evacuated from their homes, writes DAVID JONES
19/12/23 10:03
One moment the live webcam showed a desolate scene: a rocky snow-scape set against a moonless black sky.
'What we did was monstrous': Ogre of the Ardennes victim's family walk out of court as killer's widow gives first graphic account of how Joanna Parrish was murdered by monster who 'wanted to have some fun'
06/12/23 08:31
Previously unknown details revealed by Monique Olivier were so distressing that - after two terrible hours - Roger Parrish, 80, and his ex-wife Pauline Murrell, 75, could bear to listen no longer.
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Distraught parents of Joanna Parrish walk out of French court as Ogre of Ardennes' wife gives graphic account of how he raped and killed the Brit after deciding to 'have some fun' during trip to village
05/12/23 06:33
Previously unknown details revealed by Monique Olivier were so distressing that, after two torturous hours, Roger Parrish, 80, and his former wife Pauline Murrell, 75, could not bear to listen.
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When best player in Britain Erling Haaland treats the referee like this, is it any wonder amateur officials are facing an epidemic of violence... from broken jaws to death threats? A devastating state-of-the-nation dispatch from a football youth manager
04/12/23 10:50
On Sunday, Manchester City star Erling Haaland set a terrible example when he erupted after a contentious decision by referee Simon Hooper in a match against Spurs.
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Boyfriend of Ogre of Ardennes victim Joanna Parrish speaks for the first time of their relationship as he tells court his horror at learning what the killer did to the Brit during 1990 rape and murder
04/12/23 07:34
Patrick Proctor told a Paris court how his dream of settling down with the 'intelligent, cool, mischievous' girl he met at Leeds University was destroyed 33 years ago.
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Face to face with the The Ogress of the Ardennes: 30 years after their daughter Joanna Parrish was murdered in France, her parents will appear in court to confront the woman who lured her to her death
03/12/23 11:20
Today, two elderly grandmothers - one British, the other French - will come face-to-face, a few feet apart, across a drab courtroom in the suburbs of Paris.
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Expert warns Iceland volcano will 'explode like a shaken can of fizzy drink' as volcanologist tells the Mail the eruption could happen 'even before we can predict it'
18/11/23 01:51
Margaret Hartley, a senior lecturer in Earth sciences, said an eruption will take place when an open fracture attaching the magma dike to the Earth's surface opens.
Bravely - or recklessly! - DAVID JONES straddles a terrifying fissure as the ground bucks and trembles, molten lava bubbles up... and Iceland holds its breath
17/11/23 10:18
DAVID JONES: Echoing eerily from a computer's speakers, the voice is that of a middle-aged Nordic man. To avoid causing undue anxiety, he adopts a calm and measured tone.
'Innocent' Leonberger is confined to a lead for life after dogwalker was mauled to death - even though she was not involved in the deadly attack
17/11/23 01:49
Experts found Shiva had 'no blood on her' following the frenzied attack at Gravely Hill beauty spot in Caterham which killed 28-year-old Natasha Johnston.
David Jones on the '12ft chasm' caused by the Iceland volcano
16/11/23 11:52
DAVID JONES: As I gaze into the steaming black void of a 12ft chasm in the road, it's as if I can see the Earth's very bowels. Some 500 yards beneath here, there lies a scalding river of molten lava.
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David Jones on the '12ft chasm' caused by the Iceland volcano
16/11/23 11:49
DAVID JONES: As I gaze into the steaming black void of a 12ft chasm in the road, it's as if I can see the Earth's very bowels. Some 500 yards beneath here, there lies a scalding river of molten lava.
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I visited Iceland amid volcanic eruption fears and earthquake chaos... Grindavik has literally been torn in half, writes DAVID JONES
15/11/23 10:49
DAVID JONES: As I gaze into the steaming black void of a 12ft chasm in the road, it's as if I can see the Earth's very bowels. Some 500 yards beneath here, there lies a scalding river of molten lava.
Cookie and Shadow are FINALLY free: Broadcaster Glen Oglaza's beloved labradoodles bound into his arms - after 293-day 'Kafkaesque nightmare' that saw them unjustly locked up when another beast mauled their dog walker to death in Surrey woodland
08/11/23 10:18
When a police dog-handler opened their cages yesterday, the two labradoodles sprang into their owner's outstretched arms like prisoners released after a long stretch inside.
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Former ITN newsman Glen Oglaza, 68, wins legal battle to free his beloved labradoodle Cookie and sheepadoodle Shadow after they were thrown in the pound for TEN MONTHS when their dog walker was mauled to death
06/11/23 10:37
A retired news presenter has won a legal battle to free his beloved dogs after they were detained for ten months by police over the fatal mauling of a professional dog walker.
So why did this survivor of the Thai cave rescue take his own life aged 17 at an English football academy? And why was his phone wiped when police returned it...
03/11/23 11:19
DAVID JONES: Strangely, Duangphet 'Dom' Phromthep's mobile phone had been wiped clean by the time it was returned to his family along with his personal belongings.
Was self-styled celebrity gangster Dave Courtney a police GRASS? The killer who used a diamond knuckleduster and organised Ronnie Kray's funeral is found shot dead after being acquitted in 19 cases
23/10/23 11:35
During his long and lucrative career as a celebrity gangster, Dave Courtney told (or more usually sold) countless self-glamorising stories of underworld derring-do.
The day I found £200,000 of cocaine on an Isle of Wight beach: Dog-walker was agog as scores of drug-filled bundles washed up on the South Coast
13/10/23 10:00
While walking her dog along the shore and picking up bits of litter, as is her habit, Kayt Wolfe stumbled across something of considerably more value - in monetary terms, at least.
DAVID JONES: The Mafia's last Godfather who boasted he 'filled a graveyard all by myself'... He dissolved one child victim in acid but also loved women and high culture. Now he's died after 30 years on the run
25/09/23 09:24
DAVID JONES: Suffering from incurable colon cancer, Matteo Messina Denaro - the last all-powerful Mafia godfather - scrawled his funeral instructions on a scrap of paper.
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Inside 30-year manhunt for Sicilian Godfather Matteo Messina Denaro
25/09/23 05:41
Reputed by investigators to be one of the Italian Mafia's most powerful bosses, Denaro vanished in the summer of 1993 and spent the next 30 years on the run, wanted for heinous crimes.
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How anti-mafia cops finally snared 'The Devil': Inside 30-year manhunt for Sicilian Godfather Matteo Messina Denaro which ended when cops swooped on his cancer clinic eight months before his death
25/09/23 04:04
Reputed by investigators to be one of the Italian Mafia's most powerful bosses, Denaro vanished in the summer of 1993 and spent the next 30 years on the run, wanted for numerous, heinous crimes.
Dog walker horrifically mauled to death while walking eight in a park in Surrey was attacked by her own giant pit bull which she had rescued only weeks before - as friend reveals tragic victim was 'sure she could change' killed animal
15/09/23 09:14
Nuzzling together, tender cheek by chestnut brown jowl, this is the first photograph of dog walker Natasha Johnston with Stan - the humungous bull terrier that savaged her to death in January.
The champagne boss who frolicked in Paris sex clubs and the lover who threatened to cut off his 'zizi': DAVID JONES investigates Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger and a scandal that couldn't be more French if it tried!
08/09/23 11:50
DAVID JONES: There are similarities between Bond and Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, grandson of the winery's eponymous founder, who bought the company back into family ownership in 2007.
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How 46 German POWs were shot in cold blood by French Resistance fighters after digging their own graves... DAVID JONES talks to the last living witness of an unspeakably desperate act kept secret for almost 80 years
27/08/23 09:55
For almost 80 years, this cold-blooded massacre, carried out six days after the D-Day landings near the pretty town of Meymac, in the Correze region in central France, has remained a secret.
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Revealed: How expert turned sleuth to unmask the astonishing extent of British Museum thefts by snapping up the precious items on eBay then presenting bosses with damning dossier of evidence... which he claims they DIDN'T want to know
25/08/23 10:11
A suspected inside job, it had been going on under the noses of security staff for at least two decades, according to a police source.
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When super-fit cyclist Andrea Sechi collapsed and died from a heart attack in Sardinia last weekend, it was instantly blamed on global warming despite it being 8.30am and just 22C. DAVID JONES investigates the people fuelling this climate of hysteria
21/07/23 11:36
DAVID JONES: Within hours of his death after collapsing in Sardinia, Andrea Sechi was being held up as the latest climate change martyr.
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DAVID JONES: How Headingley's Western Terrace made protests at the Lord's Ashes Test feel positively monastic... after the Bairstow stumping storm, the Aussies journey to Yorkshire to face the wrath of cricket's most daunting crowd
06/07/23 09:27
DAVID JONES: Compared to the gauntlet of hatred the Australians ran on the first morning of the third Test at Leeds, the reaction at Lord's was positively monastic.
What does the appalling story of husband who drugged wife's suppers so she could be raped by 51 strangers reveal about France's attitude to morality and sex? DAVID JONES investigates attacks that shocked the world
30/06/23 04:35
Sleepy Mazan has again emerged as the setting of an appallingly sadistic story. The enormity of this saga almost defies belief. A warning: it will not make for easy reading.
Stephen Lawrence murder suspect's chilling nickname and threat to black man: Sixth suspect dubbed himself 'the lucky one' and warned victim, 'You'll be Stephen Lawrenced' in attack three years ago
27/06/23 07:38
Matthew 'Matty' White, who died aged 50 of a drugs overdose in 2021, also attacked a black shopkeeper yards from where the aspiring architect died in Eltham.
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EXCLUSIVE Stephen Lawrence's father's fury at Met as sixth suspect in his murder is unmasked: He blames the police for 'appalling' failure of investigation into fair-haired assailant
26/06/23 10:15
Neville Lawrence said it was 'appalling' to learn that Matthew 'Matty' White had escaped justice for 28 years.
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Solaine, 11, was playing on the swing at her British family's Brittany home when she was shot through the heart. Now as her neighbour faces a murder charge, DAVID JONES discovers troubling secrets about... the family barbecue that became a BLOODBATH
23/06/23 11:18
Solaine Thornton, 11, died in the arms of her mother, Rachel, who appears to have carried her to a grassy hollow and tried to shield her, despite being hit in the neck and back.
From humble beginnings to the verge of a historic treble with Manchester City: DAVID JONES traces the roots of Pep Guardiola and takes a closer look at the tactical genius who speaks five languages and recites poetry by heart
09/06/23 11:03
DAVID JONES: A glamorous 'influencer' this week posted alluring snaps of herself soaking up the sun in the Aegean resort of Izmir and sipping iced cocktails by the pool.
You're going to need a bigger boat! DAVID JONES investigates whether killer whale White Gladis is training her offspring to launch vengeful attacks on unsuspecting yachts as he visits a ship 'graveyard' on the Spanish coast
02/06/23 11:08
DAVID JONES: It was only when I saw the damage to Mustique last week, after she became the latest of many sailing boats to be battered by orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar, that I fully grasped their power.

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