Donal MacIntyre

In a new series for Discovery and Five Donal Mac Intyre travels to meet some of the world’s most remote tribes to see how they face the challenges of the modern age as they live their stone age existence. From the Bedoin of Oman, to the salt miners of Bolivia, to the Insect Tribe of PNG and the Sea Gypsies of Borneo – Mac Intyre travels the globe on an amazing quest: Here is a brief note on the Sea Gypsies the subject of Mac Intyre’s first programme which airs on Five early 2007.

Traditionally the Sama-Bajau or Bajau-Laut (normally referred to as ‘sea gypsies’) were one of the major maritime communities of island South-East Asia. Living on sea-going boats they migrated between the islands of the southern Philippines, eastern Borneo and the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

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INVESTIGATIVE journalist Donal Macintyre told a Coventry audience how he received death threats after an undercover exposé on football violence.

He told students at Coventry University that he had to live in a safe house and have a bodyguard 12 hours a day because of the danger.

"After a while, psychologically you realise security is in your head. Nonetheless you have to take all reasonable precations," he said.

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A GANGLAND thug, once cleared of killing a mobster, has been quizzed over two other murders.

Mark Clinton – a former henchman of gangster Paul Ferris – walked free over the slaying of Billy McPhee.

Now, he has been questioned about two other gangland deaths.

Clinton, 36, was taken to Baird Street police station in Glasgow after being picked up in the city's east end by murder squad detectives.

He was quizzed about the death of Thomas Longstaff who was gunned down in the city's Bridgeton area on October 2.

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The Coca-Cola cinematic world screen festival for young people in association with xtra-vision   17th November – 3rd December 2006

BT in Conversation with….
Cinemagic, in partnership with BT, will host three events "In conversation with" highly respected media professionals. These events are FREE and open to everyone – simply book your place by contacting Cinemagic, on 028 9031 1900

Donal MacIntyre
Thursday 30th November 2006, 5.00pm (exit 6.00pm), Castlereagh College

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Undercover Revisited

Ten year ago Donal Mac Intyre won numerous journalism awards for a brave and audacious lone undercover investigation into the Nottingham gangland. His chief target was a major crossborder drug trafficker Wayne Hardy. Mac Intyre, working for the acclaimed World In Action, series infiltrated the drug world from top to bottom.

Ten years on as a documentary maker, Mac Intyre returns to meet Hardy to explore his life and times – this time up front and above board. They discuss betrayal, lies and all that happened between them and since. Undercover Revisited is simply an unbelievable prospect. In production – it is due for release in September 2007.  

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A BURNLEY kidnap victim who was tortured and held to ransom, but who later gave false evidence in a trial, has been jailed for four years.

Alec Cunningham, of Plumbe Street, Burnley, lied about the brutal ordeal in which he was taken from his home and stabbed, scalded and burned with cigarette ends.

Five men went on to receive custodial sentences totalling nearly 50 years for plotting to kidnap him in June, 2003. Cunningham was eventually charged with perjury over his evidence in that trial last year.

Later, at his own trial on the perjury charge, he told the jury at Preston Crown Court that he acted under duress, fearing that he himself or members of his family might suffer serious injury or even death.

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