Clarence Mitchell

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Clarence Eden Mitchell (* 1962 ) is a British journalist.

Clarence Mitchell was until September 18, 2007 the head of the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU), a division of the Central Office of Information (COI). Previously, he was a reporter and spokesperson for BBC News. At the beginning of the Madeleine McCann missing person case he was the spokesman for the McCann family on the instructions of the British government , and later he appeared regularly as the family's private spokesman. On September 18, 2007, Clarence Mitchell stepped down from the position of government director to avoid conflicts of interest.

Life

Mitchell was born in north-west London in 1962. After school he began an apprenticeship in a bank, but he didn't like the job. In 1982 he volunteered at the Hendon and Finchley Times, where he first came in contact with Margaret Thatcher. In 1985 he moved to the Sunday Express and then went to the BBC in Sheffield as a radio reporter and then to television in Leeds with the program "Look North". In 1989 he came to the BBC's “Breakfast News” in London. He was regularly used as a jumper wherever he was needed, u. a. during the Kegworth Air Disaster and as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland, Kuwait, Iraq and the Balkans. In 1999 he became a BBC news anchor.

He was also a prominent figure in important domestic reporting; he was involved in the Fred and Rosemary West Case, where a murderous couple killed young girls and buried them under their porch in Gloucester. He was also one of the first to arrive at the crime scene on Gowan Avenue, Fulham west of London, where his immensely popular colleague Jill Dando was shot dead by a professional killer in 1999. The case was never fully resolved. He was also known for his journalistic work in the unsolved case of the murder of the schoolgirl Millie Dowler from Surrey in 2002. Towards the end of his BBC career, he was often in reports on the British royal family and the processing of the time after Diana's death and death used by Queen Mum.

In 2005 he was promoted to director of Downing St. No. 10 Media Monitoring Unit ”under Prime Minister Tony Blair. In May 2007 he was seconded by the Consular Assistance Group, representing the foreigners department, to the Madeleine McCann case in Portugal to support the McCann couple. On this occasion he met Gerald McCann for the first time at the Leicestershire Police during a "circumstantial meeting". On May 22nd, he then traveled back to the Algarve with Gerald McCann. In September 2007, when the McCann parents were declared accused, he resigned from Tony Blair's successor Prime Minister Gordon Brown and became a full-time spokesman and public relations advisor for the McCanns. In March 2010 he was in the service of David Cameron and helped him in his election victory in 2010. In July 2013 he was set up by the Conservative Party for the constituency Brighton Pavilion, in which he was in the upcoming general election in spring 2015 against the Green Caroline Lucas started. He also got a managerial position at Burson-Marsteller, one of the largest PR agencies in Britain, which belongs to the world's largest PR agency WPP. He was also involved in the management of the lobby organization Enterprise Forum of the Conservative Party.

Mitchell has a house in Bath, a wife and three children, two girls and a boy.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ star: The Madeleine case: Spin-Doctor defends McCanns
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The voice of the McCanns. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ I am a decent human being
  4. ^ Brighton and Hove News
  5. ↑ Clarence Mitchell BBC News
  6. ^ PJ Files witness statement
  7. ↑ Conservative party recruits McCann spokesman
  8. ↑ candidate for the Conservative Party
personal data
SURNAME Mitchell, Clarence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitchell, Clarence Eden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH North West London