Carl Fellstrom

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Carl Fellstrom
Born (1964-07-22) 22 July 1964 (age 58)
EducationDaventry ashby road comprehensive, Nene college and Greenwich University
OccupationJournalist
Notable credit(s)
Sunday Times, The Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, BBC, Channel 4
Website www.myspace.com/fellstrom

Carl Fellstrom (born 1964 in Sutton Coldfield) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster who specialises in crime and investigations. He has written for all the major UK national newspapers contributing particularly to the Sunday Times , The Observer , Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail .

He has also worked for the BBC and Channel 4 on documentaries including assistant producer for Undercover Prisoner for the Dispatches series which highlighted life inside one of Britain's prisons. In December 2008, he published the highly acclaimed and controversial book Hoods, [1] a best selling in depth study of gun crime, drugs and gangsters in the city of Nottingham. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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