Percy Kellick Hoskins (28 December 1904 – 5 February 1989) was the chief crime reporter for the British newspaper the Daily Express in the 1950s.
Hoskins earned a mixture of notoriety and admiration within his profession due to the stance he took regarding suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams.
He joined the Evening Standard when he was 19[2] and then moved on to the Daily Express, where he worked for more than five decades in the crime department, eventually becoming its chief reporter.
[1] Of Hoskins's approach to work, fellow journalist Michael Bywater recalled his advice: "Whenever you are interviewing somebody, always have this question in the back of your mind 'Why is this bugger lying to me?
[1] In 1956 Scotland Yard opened an investigation into the deaths of the patients of Dr John Bodkin Adams, an Eastbourne general practitioner.
[6] Scotland Yard's files on the case were opened in 2003[4] and show that police believed that 163 of Adams patients died in suspicious circumstances.
[10] On 17 September 1957 Percy Hoskins appeared on Game 1 of the American TV Show, "To Tell the Truth" with panellists Polly Bergen, Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlisle, and Hy Gardner.