Steve Ibinson
Steve Ibinson (1975-2009)[1] was a special forces soldier and private investigator.[2]
Ibinson served in the Parachute Regiment.[3] According to the Daily Mail, he also served in the SAS.[4]
He left the army at 27, settling in Belfast and setting up his own private investigation firm.[3]
From 2005 onwards, Ibinson worked closely with journalist Martin Breen on a number of investigations, including tracking down the killer of Pat Finucane, Ken Barrett to his home in England, following his release from jail.[5]
Ibinson died of a heart attack in Afghanistan in April 2009, while working for an American private security company investigating the heroin trade.[6]
Affiliations
- S.I.B. Security - Director[7]
External Resources
- LevelBusiness STEPHEN PAUL IBINSON
- Martin Breen, Brave ibbo truly was one of a kind, Sunday Life, 19 April 2009.
- Brave as a Bulldog, Northern Echo, 29 August 2009.
- Andy Dolan, Mother-of-three 'staged bloody pit bull fights at her home', Daily Mail, 9 September 2009.
- Rachel Wearmouth,Posthumous award for reporter Stephen, Northern Echo, 2 October 2010.
Notes
- ↑ Remembering our friends, Palace Barracks Memorial Gardens, accessed 29 November 2011.
- ↑ Martin Breen, Brave ibbo truly was one of a kind, Sunday Life, 19 April 2009.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Memorial service for former soldier and undercover journalist Steve Ibinson, Northern Echo, 31 August 2009.
- ↑ Andy Dolan, Mother-of-three 'staged bloody pit bull fights at her home', Daily Mail, 9 September 2009.
- ↑ Martin Breen, Brave ibbo truly was one of a kind, Sunday Life, 19 April 2009.
- ↑ Jilly Beattie, ULSTER SPECIAL FORCES HERO DROPS DEAD; EX-SOLDIER'S AFGHAN TRAGEDY AGED 33, The Mirror, 18 April 2009.
- ↑ LevelBusiness STEPHEN PAUL IBINSON
