It was my first day as the Chief Crime Correspondent on the Daily Mirror and I was keen to make an impact on my new bosses. It was a job I’d always wanted. I’d been the ‘crime man’ on several national papers already in my career. But I had always admired the Mirror ’s brand of hard hitting and campaigning journalism and when the chance came to join them in early 1993, I jumped at it. Like any reporter starting a new job, I wanted to get off to a flying start. But this first Monday in late