Katherine Rushton

Deputy Investigations Editor

Katherine Rushton is part of the award-winning Telegraph Investigations team along with Claire Newell, Sophie Barnes and Janet Eastham. The team has published a series of groundbreaking exclusives that have held the powerful to account. From Covid scandals, #MeToo and corruption in sport, the team has uncovered evidence that has led to criminal and parliamentary inquiries.

Police shouldn't use powers 'inappropriately' against blocked grandparents, says Lord Blunkett

Survey reveals some grandparents who have tried to send cards or gifts to grandchildren have faced police intervention

By Investigations team 18 Nov 2023, 5:00pm

GP surgery blunder led to healthy 28-year-old being given fatal AstraZeneca Covid jab

Alex Reid suffered rare blood clot caused by vaccine after childhood records were used that mistakenly classified him as morbidly obese

By Investigations team 14 Nov 2023, 5:28pm
Families of AstraZeneca vaccine victims fight to get jab listed on death certificates

Three widows share their struggles to have the Covid jab recorded as the official cause of death of their husbands

By Investigations team 10 Nov 2023, 5:00pm
Cambridge professor cautious about calling vaccines ‘safe and effective’

Academic says the harms ‘could very well outweigh the benefits for younger people who did tend to get blood clots more’

By Investigations team 10 Nov 2023, 5:00pm

Investigations team

Disinformation unit ‘a stain on democracy’ that must be axed, say MPs

By Investigations team 11 Sep 2023, 9:00pm
Mother discovers photo of Lucy Letby with her baby – who died shortly afterwards

By Investigations team 1 Sep 2023, 8:14pm
Secretive Covid disinformation unit worked with security services

By Investigations team 1 Sep 2023, 6:00pm
Letby hospital chairman said ‘final measure’ of its delivery is ‘financial performance’

By Investigations team 26 Aug 2023, 9:02pm
‘Lucy Letby could have killed our babies’

By Investigations team 25 Aug 2023, 9:00pm
NHS boss who raised concerns over Lucy Letby sues for constructive dismissal

By Investigations team 24 Aug 2023, 8:24pm
Medical director at Letby hospital says doctors should have pushed harder to raise concerns

By Investigations team 23 Aug 2023, 9:35pm
Lucy Letby’s former nursing boss referred to regulator

By Investigations team 22 Aug 2023, 10:26pm
Lucy Letby hospital director was ‘reported to General Medical Council, but case was closed’

By Investigations team 22 Aug 2023, 9:19pm
Nursing boss denies ignoring doctor’s warnings about Lucy Letby

By Investigations team 21 Aug 2023, 10:01pm
Lucy Letby gave lock of hair from baby she had murdered to parents

By Investigations team 18 Aug 2023, 9:46pm
The hospital bosses who failed to pull Lucy Letby off the baby ward

By Investigations team 18 Aug 2023, 8:32pm
Lucy Letby hospital boss left role with £1m pension pot

By Investigations team 18 Aug 2023, 8:31pm
NHS ignored warnings that left Lucy Letby free to kill again

By Investigations team 18 Aug 2023, 7:13pm
Kwasi Kwarteng: Future lockdowns unlikely because of ‘colossal’ impacts

By Investigations team 14 Jul 2023, 6:00am
Britain drilled to accept lockdown in future pandemics, says 'nudge unit' chief

By Investigations team 6 Jul 2023, 6:00am