Roger Cook obituary (opens in new tab)

Investigative reporter who confronted swindlers, smugglers and various villains on his radio and television programmesExposing con artists, fraudsters, paedophiles and other villains on the BBC Radio 4 programme Checkpoint, then on ITV in The Cook Report, brought fame to Roger Cook – for both his foot-in-the-door journalism and the beatings he took from his targets. He received death threats, was roughed up, attacked with baseball bats, held at gunpoint, and suffered broken fingers, cracked r...