If there’s one thing the British press and public adore more than a scandal, it’s a sense of irony. Seeing just desserts dished out upholds the belief that justice prevails in the end. Police officers behind bars, comedians becoming the butt of the joke, royals falling from grace, and journalists who wind up making the headlines instead of writing them.
Now, a new Prime Video documentary charts the rise and crushing fall of one of Britain’s most notorious undercover journalists in a three-part series – and it is juicy, juicy viewing. Back in the mid-Nineties and early Noughties, the now-defunct News of the World was home to award-winning investigative reporter Mazher Mahmood, who most people will now know as the Fake Sheikh.
