Revenge suspected in attack on MacIntyre
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Your support makes all the difference.THE INVESTIGATIVE journalist Donal MacIntyre has been attacked while jogging, apparently in revenge for one of his undercover reports.
Mr MacIntyre, 39, was running in Hampton, south-west London, on Sunday morning with a personal trainer when a man began kicking and punching him, shouting: "You should not have done it!" After a struggle his attacker, who was said to be a white male in his thirties, ran off.
Mr MacIntyre said the incident was "a completely unprovoked attack, which took me by surprise." A police spokesman said: "We are keeping an open mind about the motive."
The reporter infiltrated the notorious Chelsea Headhunters as part of his series MacIntyre Investigates in 1999. As a result, two members of the gang were jailed.
The reporter has received death threats from people aggrieved by his exposes.
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