Cases covered include the shooting of Manchester police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes , the disappearance of Welsh schoolgirl April Jones and the Manchester Arena bomb attack . McCarthy combines his UK work with occasional foreign assignments . He has covered major international events in Afghanistan , Iraq , Israel and Washington DC . He reported live during riots from the centre of Athens and on the Boston Marathon bombings in the US , and the storming of the Canadian parliament in Ottawa in 2014
April Jones
Murder of April Jones
Mike McCarthy (journalist)