Gary Jones
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Who is Gary Jones?
Gary Jones is a British journalist, deputy editor of The People since June 2008. He was previously at the Daily Mirror and the News of the World.
In 1995, whilst at the News of the World under editor Piers Morgan, Jones was named "Reporter of the Year" at the British Press Awards. Whilst at the Daily Mirror, Jones was one of "three key media contacts" for Southern Investigations, a private detective agency whose investigator Jonathan Rees is said to have "set up [a] network of corrupt police, customs officials, taxmen and bank staff to gain valuable information". Rees was recorded by police telling Jones "that some of what he was doing for the Mirror was illegal".
In December 1999 Jones, then investigations editor at the Mirror, published detailed extracts from the medical records of Ian Brady, having paid an intermediary £1500. He moved to The People in November 2007, becoming deputy editor in June 2008.
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