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Photo: Sue Turton

Presenter and correspondent Sue's beat is investigative journalism. She secured a string of world exclusives during the Equatorial Guinea coup trial.

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Karadzic boycotts own war crimes trial »

The war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic, who led the Bosnian Serbs through a brutal three-year civil war in the early 1990s, begins without him. Sue Turton reports.

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The child services boss who lost her job after the death of Baby Peter suffered financial and professional ruin after being unfairly sacked, a court hears. Sue Turton reports.

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Biography

Sue is both a news correspondent and presenter on Channel 4 News.

She investigated World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz whilst working in Washington, and also covered the Virginia Tech massacre.

Sue landed a series of world exclusives from Equatorial Guinea earlier this year when the mercenary, Simon Mann, went on trial for plotting a coup in the tiny West African oil-rich country. She was the only TV reporter inside the court and spoke to Mann in the courtroom a number of times during the trial.

She also had a private audience with President Obiang, before the court tried the case, who assured her that he was not a cannibal nor had he previously threatened to eat his political opponent's testicles.

Sue has made Africa a regular patch, with trips to Liberia just after the civil war there, when she got an interview with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first African woman President.

She reported on the trial of Tom Cholmondeley, a white land owner in Kenya who is is currently on trial for the murder of a black man on his land. And she won an RTS award for her coverage of racism in South African rugby.

Sue also has a distinquished record in sports news journalism, winning the RTS award for Sports Reporter of the Year twice.

She regularly appears in the Channel 4 News studio to present the news.

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