Hmm - as another journalist who has also come across Nick professionally I would say that his lack of ego (which is certainly the case) does him a huge disservice here.
Usually when you say someone wasn’t first with the story you mean they picked it up from somewhere else. But Nick didn’t read it in Computer Weekly and run with it. He found out the story independently when he got into conversation with one of the victims’ husbands over Twitter.
“We got a tweet from a company called Surrey Cars, asking us if it could bid for the BBC Surrey taxi account. I said something like, “Oh, that depends whether your drivers are prepared to come on air and tell us some of the great stories they must have.” And the tweet that came back was, “Oh - I’ve got a story to tell you all right. Give me a call after the show.”
He is very generous with Computer Weekly, but having got the story they didn’t do what Nick did, which was refuse to let it go. Nick was also the person who took the story to Private Eye. In my view he did get the story.