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Brendan Duggan

Brendan Duggan

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Investigative Journalist and Podcast Producer, The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)

Scotland

Biography

Brendan Duggan is an investigative reporter on DC Thomson's Impact Team focusing on creating special multimedia visual features and podcast series for The Courier and Press and Journal in Scotland. Brendan is a host and producer on the true-crime podcast series Impact Podcasts. In 2023, Brendan came runner-up for Best Young Journalist at the Scottish Press Awards. Before joining DC Thomson, Brendan achieved a distinction for Journalism at Edinburgh Napier University. Brendan then went on to study Investigative Journalism at De Montfort University with a scholarship sponsored by Channel 4.

Final Covers

Crime , Current Affairs , Investigations , Historic Abuse Cases

Doesn’t Cover

Politics, conflict

Content

Total articles 21

  • Annalise Johnstone unsolved Perthshire murder tore family apart

    By Brendan Duggan| The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee) Verified The loved ones of Perthshire murder victim Annalise Johnstone have opened up on how her tragic death in 2018 ripped their family apart. Annalise’s brother Jordan was later acquitted of killing his sister, 22, in Dunning after the jury delivered a not proven verdict. He blamed his former partner and co-accused Angela Newlands, who was cleared of murder after a High Court judge ruled there was insufficient evidence

    By Brendan Duggan · The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)

    Feb. 24, 2025

  • Angela Newlands: In search of mum acquitted of unsolved Perthshire murder

    By Brendan Duggan| The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee) Verified On a cold, dark evening, I find myself climbing the stairwell of a block of flats in Forfar – I’m looking to track down Angela Newlands. The Courier this week launches a new podcast, Who Killed Annalise? It explores the unsolved murder of Annalise Johnstone, knifed to death at the Maggie Wall witch monument in Dunning on May 10, 2018. Ms Newlands was acquitted of killing Annalise a year later, along with the 22-year-old traveller’s brother Jordan Johnstone – her boyfriend at the time

    By Brendan Duggan · The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)

    Feb. 18, 2025

  • "Who Killed Annalise?": The Courier Launches a New True Crime Podcast

    By Brendan Duggan| The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee) Verified A new true crime podcast is set to shine a spotlight on one of Scotland’s most chilling unsolved murders—the murder of 22-year-old Annalise Johnstone in 2018. “Who Killed Annalise?”, produced by The Courier, revisits this forgotten cold case in Scotland, uncovering new details and speaking to key figures—including Annalise’s brother and former prime suspect, Jordan Johnstone. In May 2018, Annalise Johnstone’s body was found on a remote country road between Dunning and Auchterarder in Perthshire

    By Brendan Duggan · The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)

    Feb. 17, 2025

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Company Info

The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)

Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

'+44 13 8245 5666