Sophie Barnes

Investigations Correspondent

Sophie Barnes is part of the award-winning Telegraph Investigations team along with Claire Newell, Katherine Rushton and Janet Eastham. The team has published a series of groundbreaking exclusives that have held the powerful to account. From Covid scandals, #MeToo and corruption in sport, the team has uncovered evidence that has led to criminal and parliamentary inquiries.

Funeral firm at centre of bodies investigation has £62,000 debts

Legacy Independent Funeral Directors may also face demand to repay £20,000 in government Covid handouts

Investigations team 14 Mar 2024, 7:27pm

Labour Together failed to declare £700k in donations amid anti-Semitism fears

Morgan McSweeney did not reveal source of funds over concerns about the safety of a Jewish donor

Investigations team 28 Feb 2024, 10:04pm
Family of film make-up artist call for inquest after treatment by physician associate

Christopher Tucker, who made prosthetics for The Elephant Man, died from sepsis caused by a bladder infection

Investigations team 24 Feb 2024, 6:56pm
Physician associates ‘illegally’ prescribe opiates to hospital patients

Revelation fuels fears that workers with limited medical training could be handed responsibilities that place patients in danger

Investigations team 22 Feb 2024, 6:42pm

Support staff use doctors’ log-ins for ‘illegal’ prescriptions, medic claims

Electronic systems at NHS trusts alleged to be open to abuse by physician associates who do not have the right to prescribe drugs

Investigations team 28 Jan 2024, 8:17pm
Physician associates accused of illegally prescribing drugs and missing diagnoses

Patients’ lives put at risk by support staff who have failed to respond appropriately to medical emergencies, dossier reveals

Investigations team 27 Jan 2024, 8:30pm
How Lord Cameron rolled out the red carpet for the UAE

Plus, we look at how the Gulf state’s network of influence is spreading throughout the UK

Investigations team 23 Jan 2024, 11:01pm
Police shouldn't use powers 'inappropriately' against blocked grandparents, says Lord Blunkett

Survey reveals some grandparents who have tried to send cards or gifts to grandchildren have faced police intervention

Investigations team 18 Nov 2023, 5:00pm
GP surgery blunder led to healthy 28-year-old being given fatal AstraZeneca Covid jab

Alex Reid suffered rare blood clot caused by vaccine after childhood records were used that mistakenly classified him as morbidly obese

Investigations team 14 Nov 2023, 5:28pm
Families of AstraZeneca vaccine victims fight to get jab listed on death certificates

Three widows share their struggles to have the Covid jab recorded as the official cause of death of their husbands

Investigations team 10 Nov 2023, 5:00pm

Cambridge professor cautious about calling vaccines ‘safe and effective’

Academic says the harms ‘could very well outweigh the benefits for younger people who did tend to get blood clots more’

Investigations team 10 Nov 2023, 5:00pm
Matt Hancock feared Covid vaccine warning systems were ‘shonky’

WhatsApp messages show former health secretary was worried that checks on the jabs were inadequate, a month after national rollout had begun

Investigations team 9 Nov 2023, 7:45pm
‘Every day is hard’: The families battling for AstraZeneca vaccine compensation

Families tell of how the AstraZeneca jab changed their lives forever, and their struggle to receive an appropriate government payout

Robert Mendick 9 Nov 2023, 5:11pm
Vaccine compensation scheme must be reformed, former ministers urge

Nadhim Zahawi and Sir Jeremy Wright urge Government to examine payments over delays and limited support for people harmed by Covid vaccines

Investigations team 9 Nov 2023, 5:11pm
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Investigations team 9 Nov 2023, 1:03pm
Oxford AstraZeneca Covid jab was ‘defective’, claims landmark legal case

Victims of VITT - a new condition identified by specialists - question the Government's monitoring of the vaccine's rollout and its efficacy

Robert Mendick 8 Nov 2023, 5:59pm
Government shared Covid monitoring of social media with US State Department

Julia Hartley-Brewer was wrongly identified as a 'known vaccine-sceptic' in one of the reports shared with the White House, documents show

Investigations team 27 Oct 2023, 12:01am
Disinformation unit ‘a stain on democracy’ that must be axed, say MPs

Cross-party MPs write open letter to Government claiming secretive unit is collecting legitimate posts criticising policy

Investigations team 11 Sep 2023, 9:00pm
Mother discovers photo of Lucy Letby with her baby – who died shortly afterwards

Image of serial killer with Emily Morris’s son Alvin was found on CD of pictures taken at his baptism

Investigations team 1 Sep 2023, 8:14pm
Secretive Covid disinformation unit worked with security services

Documents submitted to inquiry reveal the ‘UK intelligence community’ has been involved in the CDU since it was founded in 2019

Investigations team 1 Sep 2023, 6:00pm
‘Lucy Letby could have killed our babies’

Families tell The Telegraph they believe serial killer nurse could be responsible for their children's death

Investigations team 25 Aug 2023, 9:00pm
Lucy Letby appeal fund launched

Supporters claim the nurse’s conviction ‘may represent the greatest miscarriage of justice the UK has ever witnessed’

Investigations team 23 Aug 2023, 7:13pm