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Home affairs correspondent Simon covers terrorism, crime, prisons, asylum and immigration, race and legal affairs - from the Victoria Climbie inquiry, to Abu Hamza's end of trial, to suicide in prisons.

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Five held in Manchester anti-terror raids »

Anti-terror police arrest five men after raids in Levenshulme, Longsight, Fallowfield, Deane, Stalybridge and Bolton. Simon Israel reports.

Police (Source: Reuters)

Coroner: Rye Hill cell death ‘shameful’ »

A coroner condemns the treatment of Aleksey Baranovsky, who bled to death at the privately run Rye Hill Jail in June 2006. Simon Israel reports.

Aleksey Baranovsky

Inquest into suicide watch death »

An inquest begins into the death of a Ukrainian man who was on suicide watch in a Warwickshire jail. Simon Israel reports.

Biography

Simon is home affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News. His wide brief includes terrorism, crime, prisons, asylum and immigration, race and legal affairs.

He has reported extensively on such matters as the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, detention without trial, Guantanamo, suicides in prisons, the nation's drug problems, gun crime, government policies on immigration and asylum and, more recently, on the war on terrorism in the UK and Europe.

He joined Channel 4 News in 1995 and has since won a number of awards for his original, investigative and often exclusive reports.

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