Matt O’Donoghue

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Oct 19, 2024 | livpost.co.uk | Matt O’Donoghue

By Matt O’DonoghueOctober 4th, 2024. With a gentle nod to the judge and a quiet 'thank you' for his 25-year sentence, career criminal Edward Robert ‘Bobbie’ Jarvis shuffles slowly from the dock and is led down the stairs to an underground holding cell. An armed escort awaits to chauffeur the Category A prisoner back to his quarters at HMP Manchester, where he has spent much of the last four-and-a-half years postponing today's almost inevitable conclusion.

Feb 3, 2024 | livpost.co.uk | Matt O’Donoghue

By Matt O’Donoghue“Block D is an inferno right now”, the first message reads. “Look what’s been torched.” More follow. “Not sure how other blocks are faring, they’ve been evacuated.” Some have video or photos attached. “Seen this. I feel sick.” One simply reads: “Fox Street’s final chapter.”Block D at the stalled residential development of Fox Street Village sits on the edge of Everton. It is ablaze, and a lot of people want me to know.

Nov 18, 2023 | livpost.co.uk | Matt O’Donoghue

By Matt O’Donoghue“He’s taken everything from me; my health, my dignity and self-respect, the family legacy… Five generations it took to build that business up. All of it is gone because of him.”Chris Snow is peering over the top of his rimless glasses as we chat outside Court 5 on the fourth floor of Liverpool Crown Court. It’s October 2023 and rain hammers down from a slate grey sky onto Derby Square below.

Oct 19, 2023 | livpost.co.uk | Matt O’Donoghue

Dear members — Two weekends ago, we published Matt O’Donoghue’s compelling longread — an investigation into how the city council’s investment in a luxury car firm didn’t just fail to turn a profit, but lost taxpayers £950,000. Today, we’re publishing an exclusive follow-up to this story, also written by Matt: confidential emails from council officers suggest at least some at the council were concerned that this wouldn’t be a lucrative investment. So why weren’t these dissenting voices listened to?