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Intrepid and courageous journalist for Time Out and the Sunday Times who went on to become a PR and strategy adviser
In 1972 the young journalist David May had a major scoop published in the small London listings magazine Time Out. It was an interview with the bank robber Kenneth Littlejohn, done just before he went on the run from prison in Ireland, in which he claimed to have been working for British secret services in order to discredit the IRA.
He and I were editing Time Out together when David, who has died aged 70 after suffering from leukaemia, suddenly disappeared. Together with a contact, a Trinity College undergraduate named Mark Hosenball, he had gone to Mountjoy prison in Dublin with a camera and bulky tape recorder to interview Littlejohn. Continue reading...