Colleen Egan

Colleen Egan is a Western Australian journalist and author who played a role in obtaining the acquittal of Andrew Mallard, a Western Australian man who had been wrongfully convicted of murder. Egan, who has principally been employed as a print journalist by The Sunday Times, first established herself as an investigative journalist in 2000 when her exclusive interviews with terrorist Jack Roche were published in The Australian. Her work has since taken her to London, covering trials at the Old Bailey, and back to Perth as a weekly columnist for The Sunday Times. She is now an Assistant Editor at The West Australian newspaper. Egan was approached in 1998 by the family of Andrew Mallard who had been convicted and detained in 1995 for the...