Neil David Garrett is a British

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 television producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

/director

Television director

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Garrett began his career in television

Television

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 in 1999, and became a producer for ITV News

ITV News

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 in 2003. In August 2005 he secured the leak into the investigation of the death of Jean Charles De Menezes

Jean Charles de Menezes

Jean Charles de Menezes was a Brazilian man shot in the head seven times at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by the London Metropolitan police, after he was misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts...

. His dossier revealed crucial facts of the case, and police forensic photographs which proved that De Menezes was not acting or dressed suspiciously - it had been a catalogue of failings which led to his death.

This scoop earned ITV News nominations for awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

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 and the Royal Television Society

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Six weeks after ITV news ran the story, Garrett was arrested during a raid on his home by the Leicestershire Police Serious Crime Unit, who had been commissioned by the Independent Police Complaints Commission

Independent Police Complaints Commission

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 to investigate the leak.
After being imprisoned, having his personal computer and telecoms equipment seized, and posting bail on four separate occasions in total, Garrett was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing on May 4, 2006.

He wrote an account of his ordeal in a special report for The Guardian

The Guardian

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newspaper on 15 May 2006.