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Lucy Gilder

@lh_gilder

Journalist covering home and social affairs @BBCNews Verify team | @JSchofieldTrust Fellow 2024 | Views my own.

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According to research carried out by the Domestic Homicide Project across England and Wales, in almost half of cases where a suspect killed their partner last year, the attacker was already known to police for domestic abuse offending.

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We've fact-checked Rishi Sunak's radio phone-in on LBC this morning. BBC Verify looked into claims about crime, small boats and prisons. Read here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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The Irish govt has approved a plan to introduce a new law making it easier to return migrants to the UK. BBC Verify investigated the claim that 80% of recent asylum seekers have crossed into Ireland from the UK border, fuelled by the Rwanda policy. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

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The UK’s asylum backlog started falling in 2023. The government hired more caseworkers and their productivity increased, leading to more decisions. We examine how this happened, why, and what it means for the asylum system in our updated briefing. 🧵(1/8) migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/brie…

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🚨 More people than ever are being held in England and Wales' overcrowded and crumbling prisons. Our exclusive data analysis exposes widespread failings in safety, hygiene, healthcare, violence and release planning. Here's what we found ⤵️ sianushka opendemocracy.net/en/prisons-mos…

🚨 More people than ever are being held in England and Wales' overcrowded and crumbling prisons.

Our exclusive data analysis exposes widespread failings in safety, hygiene, healthcare, violence and release planning. Here's what we found ⤵️ <a href="/sianushka/">sianushka</a>
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A great honour to have been shortlisted for the Orwell Society journalism prize. Thanks to the judging panel for selecting my entry on state school buildings and the Raac crisis

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Congrats to the winners & highly commended of the '24 NUJ / Orwell Society Young Journalist Awards! “What was notable about this year's entries was the close attention to forms of toxicity online." Political opinion writing + Best Arts Review here 👉 nuj.org.uk/resource/winne…

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How much capacity do prisons in England and Wales have left and how did they get so full? BBC Verify has taken a look at some of the figures behind the story: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Latest disinformation debunk from BBC Verify: Baseless claim that Kamala Harris was involved in an alleged hit-and-run incident spread by mysterious website. Reporting from Shayan Sardarizadeh, Merlyn Thomas and Lucy Gilder: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Misinformation has been spreading on social media about the Hurricane Helene response. BBC Verify has been looking at the claims made by Trump and other senior Republicans. Reporting by @J_A_Horton and Lucy Gilder: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Next was covering the second assassination attempt on Trump. Lucy Gilder and I looked into the security surrounding the former president and how the gunman got so close: bbc.com/news/articles/…

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Another piece written by Lucy Gilder and I on FBI migrant crime stats, which Trump made misleading claims about to attack the Biden-Harris administration: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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President Trump has caused controversy after suggesting that diversity programmes supported by his predecessors played a role in the crash between a passenger jet and helicopter in Washington DC. We looked into the facts behind the claims-with Lucy Gilder bbc.com/news/articles/…

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President Trump has been justifying his sweeping tariffs with a series of claims about how the US is the victim of "unfair trade". Some of his claims on trade are unsubstantiated or even false. BBC Verify has been taking a closer look. w Lucy Gilder Tom Edgington