Simon Israel is a Senior Home Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Robustly independent reporting on home affairs. Covers crime, police, terrorism, legal, race, immigration, social justice, prisons.Award winning films on terrorism, G20 protests, Stephen Lawrence, illegal immigration, suicides in prisons.
Simon Israel has been home affairs correspondent since 1998. He's broken a number of exclusives, including the resignation of the officer in charge of counter terrorism, racism in the crown prosecution service, the abuse of restraint methods on detained children, the Government's resettlement programme for refugees.
"My objective is to try to come at stories from an original perspective but one which resonates with the viewer and challenges the establishment."
Their case went all the way to the highest court in the land before the Home Office finally relented, insisting this was an exceptional one-off decision.
Channel 4 News has learnt only a few hundred people have applied since Windrush compensation was launched three months ago.
The Home Office has been accused of being reckless and of failing in their legal duty to counter racial discrimination – by a Home Office commissioned review – into the Windrush scandal.
A major legal challenge to the government’s widespread surveillance powers has begun in the High Court.
Grenfell survivors and bereaved relatives have told the government a similar disaster could happen again because of the lack of progress over fire safety and tackling the root cause of the blaze.
The race hasn’t officially started yet but rival candidates for the Conservative leadership are already clashing over Brexit. Rory Stewart declared he could not serve in a government led by Boris Johnson because of his support for a possible No Deal exit. While fellow cabinet minister Matt Hancock said he wanted to be honest about…
The police drama Line of Duty was fiction. But this is fact. Not AC-12 but a real-life anti-corruption unit inside the largest force in the country.
The police drama Line of Duty was fiction. But this is fact. Not AC-12 but a real-life anti-corruption unit inside the largest force in the country.
Mr Grayling’s critics say this latest U-turn – added to previous failings such as the ferry and train timetable fiascoes – mean he should resign as transport secretary.
The scale of serious organised crime in this country is “truly staggering”, the head of the National Crime Agency has warned, claiming it kills more people every year than terrorism, war and natural disasters combined.
The Metropolitan police commissioner has welcomed a significant fall in knife crime across London over the last year – saying it was down to a large increase in stop and search, and more officers on the streets.
Police were warned 34 times of a stalker who repeatedly breached a court order designed to stop him communicating with his ex-partner, yet at no time was Nicholas Allen ever charged.
He came to East London to talk about combating violent crime, but spent at least a third of his speech talking about himself.
Last week the death in the segregation unit of Peterborough prison of a 47-year-old mother Annabella Landsberg, from Zimbabwe, was roundly condemned by an inquest jury. The prison ombudsman described the events as ‘shocking’. Her sister Sandra sat through the entire three-week hearing. She was lucky. She had legal aid. It stretched to paying for…
She was a diabetic prisoner who died after being restrained and left on her cell floor for 21 hours. Staff at Peterborough prison thought Annabelle Landsberg was “play acting” when she stayed on the floor in September 2017. Now an inquest jury has found that a series of failings by prison and healthcare staff contributed to her death.