David Hencke obituary
Guardian journalist whose investigations helped expose political wrongdoing and brought down government ministersThe award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke, who has died from liver cancer aged 79, had his byline on many of the most important scoops carried by the Guardian during his 33-year career on the paper.An ebullient and unfailingly genial figure, he was one of those whose exposure of the cash-for-questions scandal in 1994 led to the downfall of the Tory ministers Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, and in…
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