David Hencke, Guardian journalist who exposed cash-for-questions scandal, dies aged 79

David Hencke, a Guardian journalist whose three-decade career was marked by exposing political misconduct, has died of liver cancer at age seventy-nine. In the nineteen nineties, as Westminster correspondent, Hencke's reporting uncovered the cash-for-questions scandal, which led to the resignations of two Conservative ministers, and revealed the story that prompted Peter Mandelson's first departure from government. According to The Guardian, his work earned him a reputation as one of Britain's most tenacious investigators of political wrongdoing.

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