Chloe Hadjimatheou

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Chloe Hadjimatheou

The teacher featured in The Observer’s Tortoise Investigates podcast Lucky Boy has been charged with two counts of sexual assault on two boys under the age of 14 after two men accused her of sexually abusing them when they were pupils at the north London school where she taught. The podcast focused on the story of Gareth – not his real name – who was a pupil at Christ’s College Finchley school in the late 1980s.

1 month ago | tortoisemedia.com | Nina Kuryata |Chloe Hadjimatheou

“We’ll be talking about land. A lot of land is a lot different than it was before the war, as you know.” Donald Trump, speaking before a phone call he plans to have with Vladimir Putin today. So what? He was essentially repeating Putin’s line that ceasefire talks should be based on the “reality on the ground” – ie on the illegal annexation of nearly 20 per cent of Ukraine.

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Chloe Hadjimatheou

Syria’s new government has signed an historic deal with the biggest faction in the country, the Kurdish-led SDF, which oversees the northeast and is backed by the US. So what? Most of Syria is now under the government’s control, as part of an agreement that also secures new constitutional rights for the country’s Kurdish minority. Syria’s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has been lobbying the West to lift sanctions.

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Basia Cummings |Gary Marshall |Rebecca Moore |Chloe Hadjimatheou |Hannah Varrall

series Lucky Boy 2h 59 mins • 5 Episodes Gareth’s whole life has been defined by a relationship he had 35 years ago when, as a 14-year-old schoolboy, he fell in love with an attractive young teacher at his school. He spent most afternoons in her bedroom and thought he was the luckiest boy in the world. But when she walked out of his life everything started to unravel. Lucky Boy is a new four-part series in which Chloe Hadjimatheou asks who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim.

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Chloe Hadjimatheou

When he was 14, he fell in love with a teacher. After she walked out of his life everything started to unravel Tortoise’s new investigative series asks who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim. Listen to Lucky Boy now. It was a warm July evening in 1988 when Gareth* went to the pub in Finchley with his teacher, Miss Bowen. It was end of year staff drinks and the back bar was full of teachers from Christ’s College secondary school.