Profile
David Rose, who now writes for the Observer and Vanity Fair, has worked at Time Out, the Guardian and BBC TV, and has investigated wrongful convictions since the early 1980s.
‘A Climate of Fear’. his book about three men wrongly convicted for murdering PC Keith Blakelock during the 1985 Tottenham riot, was described as ‘the best account of a miscarriage of justice written yet’.
His other books include ‘In the Name of the Law: The Collapse of Criminal Justice’, ‘Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves’ and ‘Guantanamo: America’s War on Human Rights’.
He is a past winner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, David Watt Memorial Prize, the Bar Council’s Legal Reporter of the Year award, and the One World-European Union award for human rights journalism.
A father of four, he lives in Oxford.
