Background
Jennings was born in Scotland and as a child moved to London, England. He is the grandson of a former Clapton Orient player.
Jennings was born in Scotland and as a child moved to London, England. He is the grandson of a former Clapton Orient player.
Jennings attended University of Hull and later worked for the Sunday Times" Insight team in the late 1960s, after which he worked for other British newspapers before becoming an investigative reporter on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Four"s Checkpoint.
He is best known for his work investigating and writing about corruption in the International Olympic Committee and Fédération internationale de football association. In 1986 the British Broadcasting Corporation refused to broadcast his documentary concerning corruption in Scotland Yard. Jennings reacted by resigning and transforming the material into his first book, Scotland Yard"s Cocaine Connection, and the documentary was aired by World In Action. Jennings subsequently worked for Granada, filming several international investigations and small documentaries.
In 1993 Jennings entered Chechnya with the first western television crew ever to enter the country, to investigate Caucasus mafia activity.
1997 saw Jennings working with World In Action, with an investigation on British Olympic swimming coach Hamilton Bland, and in 1998 he presented a documentary on rail privatisation. Panorama
His first appearance on Panorama, a current affairs documentary programme, came in June 2006 (episode entitled "The Beautiful Bung: Corruption and the World Cup") when Jennings investigated several allegations of bribery within Fédération internationale de football association, including million-dollar bribes to secure marketing rights for company ISL along with vote-buying (to secure the position of Fédération internationale de football association president Sepp Blatter), bribery and graft attributed to CONCACAF president Jack Warner.
lieutenant was followed up in October 2007 with an episode entitled "Fédération internationale de football association and Coe" exploring the relationship between former British Olympian Sebastian Coe and the Fédération internationale de football association Ethics Committee. Jennings alleged that Ricardo Teixeira, President of Brazil"s Football Federation (CBF) and of the 2014 World Cup Organising Committee, Nicolás Léoz of Paraguay, President of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), and Issa Hayatou from Cameroon, President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) all accepted bribes from a television marketing firm.
In December 2015, he presented a summary of the investigations into Fédération internationale de football association entitled Fifa, Sepp Blatter and Maine for British Broadcasting Corporation"s Panorama.