Andy Davies is a Home Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News covering Wales & the West of England.
In 2019 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society. This followed his reporting on the programme’s award-winning Cambridge Analytica investigation and ‘Out in the Cold’ homelessness series. His feature ‘Her Name was Lindy’ about a 32 year old rough sleeper who died in Cardiff was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.
Operating out of our Cardiff bureau, he has reported on some of the most high profile criminal cases in recent years (April Jones; Ian Watkins; Jo Yeates; Becky Watts) and previously broke several exclusives on the phone hacking scandal. He is the only journalist to have interviewed ex-police officer Bob Lambert about his hugely controversial double life in which he fathered a child while working undercover.
Before joining Channel 4 News, he was a reporter for BBC Panorama and BBC Northern Ireland.
A third UK police force admits the tactic of using restraining belts on the heads of detainees, Channel 4 News can exclusively reveal.
A second police force has been using a limb restraining belt on detainees’ faces, Channel 4 News can exclusively reveal.
The police watchdog issues a warning to officers to stop using restraining belts on detainees’ heads following a man’s death. His family wants to see CCTV footage from the police station.
The family of 16-year-old Christina Edkins who was stabbed to death on her way to school in Birmingham have released a statement questioning why her killer was allowed to leave prison “unsupervised”.
After George Osborne unveils plans to make long term unemployed people carry out community service, Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies visits Ebbw Vale to find out what people there think.
Three more suspects have been arrested in connection with allegations of slavery and a third alleged victim has been recovered from one of the sites being searched by detectives.
Police tell the former undercover cop who claimed a ‘smear’ campaign against the family of Stephen Lawrence that he will not be given immunity from prosecution.
In what is being hailed as an invaluable social history of his area, artist Grahame Hurd-Wood is in the middle of a daunting project: to paint every inhabitant of the Welsh city of St David’s.
As his new novel about Bill Shankly is published, David Peace tells Channel 4 News “society has gained materially, but lost a sense of community” since the former Liverpool manager’s day.
Sexual relationships, fathering a child, using dead children’s identities and a false name in court – in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview Bob Lambert talks about his years as an undercover officer.
In an exclusive interview, former undercover police boss Bob Lambert admits his actions were “reprehensible” and apologises to the women he had sexual relationships with. Watch the extended interview.
“Incompetent” police, regrets over his own investigation, promises to protect Sun journalists: a secret recording reveals Rupert Murdoch’s real attitudes to the scandal that has engulfed his empire.
Bob Lambert, ex-deputy chief of a covert Met unit, says in an exclusive interview that “at no time” was his team involved with trying to smear the family of the murdered teenager, Stephen Lawrence.
US President Barack Obama is given a warm welcome as G8 leaders descend on Northern Ireland.
Guinea’s president vows to tackle corruption. Channel 4 News investigates if he has made progress.