Two young brothers are due to be sentenced after luring another two boys to a ravine where they were brutally attacked.
Biography
Nick covers large swathes of Britain as our North of England Correspondent but he's also worked on major investigations abroad too.
Nick deals with anything from serious crime to industrial disputes, rural affairs to inner city issues. From his base in Manchester he's able to cover large parts of the Britain at short notice - from Wales to the Shetland Islands and everything in between.
More recently Nick carried out a major investigation into the illegal trade of Mexican children 'sold to order' to Americans across the border. His exclusive report prompted the US and Mexican Governments to launch a criminal investigation.
Nick is a six times award winning journalist. He won his first award at the age of 21 when he was named National Newcomer of the Year by the UK Society of Editors.
More recently he was named Royal Television Society Reporter of the Year for the north, RTS Most Promising Newcomer of the year and ITV News Young Journalist of the Year in 2003.
Before joining Channel 4 News he was a reporter and presenter with ITV based in Carlisle and prior to that he worked as an undercover reporter investigating organised crime gangs throughout Europe.
On 7 July 2005, while working for ITV News, he was one of the first reporters to be dispatched to one of the scenes of the London bombings.
Nick cut his teeth as a cub reporter on the local paper in his home town of Whitley Bay in 1999, before going on to write for several daily newspapers specialising in Crime and Special Investigations.
Nick studied Criminal Psychology at University and has a keen interest in organised crime, British criminal history and working of the FBI.
He is based in Channel 4 News's Northern Bureau in Manchester.
Email him your stories at nick.martin@itn.co.uk or follow him on twitter at @C4NickMartin
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Nick Martin
