Sophie Barnes

Investigations Correspondent

Sophie Barnes is part of the award-winning Telegraph Investigations team along with Claire Newell, Katherine Rushton 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

Matt Hancock feared Covid vaccine warning systems were ‘shonky’

WhatsApp messages show former health secretary was worried that checks on the jabs were inadequate, a month after national rollout had begun

By Investigations team 9 Nov 2023, 7:45pm
‘Every day is hard’: The families battling for AstraZeneca vaccine compensation

Families tell of how the AstraZeneca jab changed their lives forever, and their struggle to receive an appropriate government payout

By Robert Mendick 9 Nov 2023, 5:11pm
Vaccine compensation scheme must be reformed, former ministers urge

Nadhim Zahawi and Sir Jeremy Wright urge Government to examine payments over delays and limited support for people harmed by Covid vaccines

By Investigations team 9 Nov 2023, 5:11pm
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By Investigations team 9 Nov 2023, 1:03pm
Oxford AstraZeneca Covid jab was ‘defective’, claims landmark legal case

Victims of VITT - a new condition identified by specialists - question the Government's monitoring of the vaccine's rollout and its efficacy

By Robert Mendick 8 Nov 2023, 5:59pm
Government shared Covid monitoring of social media with US State Department

Julia Hartley-Brewer was wrongly identified as a 'known vaccine-sceptic' in one of the reports shared with the White House, documents show

By Investigations team 27 Oct 2023, 12:01am

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

Cross-party MPs write open letter to Government claiming secretive unit is collecting legitimate posts criticising policy

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

Image of serial killer with Emily Morris’s son Alvin was found on CD of pictures taken at his baptism

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

Documents submitted to inquiry reveal the ‘UK intelligence community’ has been involved in the CDU since it was founded in 2019

By Investigations team 1 Sep 2023, 6:00pm
‘Lucy Letby could have killed our babies’

Families tell The Telegraph they believe serial killer nurse could be responsible for their children's death

By Investigations team 25 Aug 2023, 9:00pm
Lucy Letby appeal fund launched

Supporters claim the nurse’s conviction ‘may represent the greatest miscarriage of justice the UK has ever witnessed’

By Investigations team 23 Aug 2023, 7:13pm
Lucy Letby gave lock of hair from baby she had murdered to parents

Parents describe the nurse as a ‘hateful human being’ who has taken ‘everything’ from them

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

Alison Kelly, Karen Rees and Ian Harvey have been criticised for not removing the neonatal nurse quickly enough from her position

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

Tony Chambers was chief executive of the Countess of Chester and will face questions about whether more could have been done to stop her

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

An inquiry will look into failings at the Countess of Chester Hospital after doctors said they had raised concerns

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

Former chancellor says ‘massive impact’ of restrictions on economy mean response to new pandemic could be ‘more strategic’

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

Exclusive: Professor David Halpern predicts the population would comply with another lockdown because they 'know what the drill is'

By Investigations team 6 Jul 2023, 6:00am
Anti-vaccine GP ‘delighted to be struck off’ after Telegraph exposé

Dr Jayne Donegan speaks out years after telling an undercover reporter she would ‘definitely want’ children to get mumps

By Investigations team 6 Jul 2023, 1:25am