‘He really does look pretty scary,” Sue Mitchell says of the migrant smuggling mastermind Barzan Majeed, alias (gulp) The Scorpion. And indeed he does look scary. Forehead scar. Hard, pitiless eyes. A psychopath’s half-smirk. Nobody nice is nicknamed The Scorpion.
Majeed is the subject of a BBC podcast, To Catch a Scorpion. Mitchell and her co-presenter, the former soldier Rob Lawrie, are on a mission to meet and interview him. I try not to give away spoilers, but readers of this week’s Times will hardly have been able to avoid the news that Majeed was arrested in the mountains of Iraq last Sunday, thanks to information supplied by the BBC. And people say podcasts don’t matter.
To Catch a Scorpion is precisely the sort
