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Jayne Secker

Jayne Secker is one of Sky News’ London based news correspondents. She can be seen reporting from the field as well as presenting from the Sky News Centre.

Internationally she has reported extensively from the Middle East, covering the Israeli/Hizbollah conflict, the withdrawal of settlers from Gaza, the Israeli election and the death of the spiritual leader of Hammas Sheik Ahmed Yassin.

She reported from Basra during the war in Iraq in 2003, as well as Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. On the night the war began she reported live from the deck of the USS Shiloh as tomahawk missiles were fired from the vessel into Iraq.

While in Vietnam she secured the first TV interview with one of the victims of pop star paedophile Gary Glitter. In Thailand she gained an exclusive behind bars interview with British man Jody Aggett, who had been jailed for drug smuggling.

Other stories covered include the Thai coup in 2006, the Moscow theatre siege in 2002 and the bombings in Dahab in Egypt in 2006. She has also spent time reporting on politics in Washington, including the 2004 Republican convention.

In 2005 she decamped to California for five months to cover the Michael Jackson child abuse trial. In the days after he died she conducted an exclusive interview with his bodyguard and wrote and presented an hour long documentary that was broadcast on Sky 1 less than 24 hours after his death.

Domestically she has covered numerous court cases for Sky including the Ipswich murder trial, and the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly.

She was part of the Sky News team that won an RTS and Bafta for its coverage of the Soham murders, and was also a finalist in the Royal Television Society's Young Journalist of the Year Award.

Jayne can also be seen presenting on Sky News.

Jayne joined Sky from HTV in Bristol where she was a reporter and presenter. She was previously a BBC Radio trainee, and worked for the corporation in the North East and Oxford.

Educated in Newcastle and at Stirling University, Jayne now lives in London and is married with one son.