Omid Scobie discusses death threats since release of book

Evening Standard

Journalist Omid Scobie speaks to This Morning about the fraught reaction to his new book Endgame. He says he has received death threats and his father has been harassed by tabloid journalists.

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00:00 - But you're a journalist. - I am a journalist.

00:02 And you know the effect a book like this has,

00:05 so surely you can't be surprised by the reaction.

00:08 I knew that it would be heated and controversial, absolutely.

00:12 But I think that, I don't know how closely you follow it,

00:16 but a lot of this has been simply about me.

00:20 It's been unnecessary information about me,

00:22 it's been unfair attacks about me,

00:24 it's been an assassination of my character,

00:26 my father's been harassed, my pets.

00:27 You had death threats as well.

00:29 And yeah, and I don't want to make light of those,

00:31 but death threats were almost like the least of my worry.

00:33 I had tabloid journalists harassing my father

00:36 last week and the week before,

00:38 trying to purport all sorts of nonsense.

00:41 I've had things done that have happened behind the scenes

00:44 that no one would ever know about.

00:46 The reality is that this book covers a lot of things

00:49 that the British press don't want to talk about

00:51 because they are part of it.

00:53 And it's why it's so important for,

00:55 listen, I'm not asking people to buy this book,

00:57 rent it from the library,

00:59 but I want people to see it for themselves.

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