Martin Brunt

Martin Edward Brunt (born Camberley, Surrey, England, on 5 February 1955) is crime correspondent for Sky News. He joined the channel at its launch in 1989.

Brunt was educated at Soham Grammar School, in the small town of Soham in Cambridgeshire, followed by the London College of Printing, where he studied magazine journalism.

After leaving the London College of Printing, Brunt first joined the editorial staff of Power Laundry and Cleaning News, owned by the International Publishing Corporation (IPC) in London.

From there he was taken on as a junior reporter with the Chatham News and Chatham Standard newspapers in Kent and after training under editor Gerald Hinks left to join a news agency in Devon, followed by the Ferrari Agency in Dartford, Kent. From there he moved to the Sunday Mirror and became chief reporter before being asked to join Sky News.

Early exclusive coverage included the Iraqis' retreat from Kuwait in the first Gulf War.

Later, Brunt was first to break news of the death of the Queen Mother in 2002 and the murder of television presenter Jill Dando in 1999.

In 2005, he was first to report that the 7 July explosions in London were the work of terrorists.

Brunt reported from South Africa on the murder inquiry into "Adam", an unknown boy whose torso was found in the River Thames in 2001.

He has a reputation for gaining insider information: Hugo Rifkind reported in The Times diary of 22 December 2006:

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