Gavin Hewitt
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Gavin Hewitt is a journalist for the BBC. Having started his career in Canada, Hewitt began working for the BBC in 1984 on Panorama, a television documentary series. In 2000 he began work as a special correspondent for BBC News.
In 2003 he was one of three reporters to use David Kelly as a source for the BBC story claiming that the British Government had "sexed up" a dossier describing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. He later gave evidence on the affair to the Hutton Inquiry.
Gavin Hewitt has also reported on the Bunccefield depot explosion.
He presented Crisis Command - Could you run the country? - a BBC TV show where three people are given the chance to take ministerial decisions in a real-time dramatisation of a potential national emergency (flooding, terrorist attack etc).
He has written A Soul on Ice - a book about his time as a journalist. ISBN 0330432966