Simon Cumbers

Quick Facts

Full Name	Simon Cumbers
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 23, 1968(1968-01-23)
Age	56
Country	Ireland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Simon Cumbers Biography

Simon Cumbers is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 23, 1968 in Ireland. Simon Cumbers (23 January 1968 – 6 June 2004), an Irish cameraman with the BBC News in the United Kingdom was killed by a gunman during an attack on terrorists. He was killed while working at As-Suwaidi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His friend Frank Gardner, who was similarly shot, survived the attack, but was left paralyzed.

Frank Gardner wrote a book, Blood and Sand, which was published in 2010. It is about his experiences about the situation in Saudi Arabia and the attack on him and Cumbers.

Journalist Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were asked to cover events following May’s Yanbu attack as well as the Khobar mass murders within Saudi Arabia, both of which resulted in British victims. In the past, the British Foreign Office had restricted the travel of non-essentials to Saudi Arabia. The following Sunday the team travelled to the As-Suwaidi area of Riyadh an ultraconservative region in which Al-Qaeda was believed to be a prominent presence.

Simon Cumbers Net Worth

Simon Cumbers is one of the richest Journalist from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Simon Cumbers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

When he was studying at St Patrick’s, he served as editor of the school’s publication, Tuairim; features writer for Drogheda Independent, Ipswich Evening and Meath Chronicle; and hosted an radio show for Royal County Radio, a local pirate radio station. He began writing in The Weekender. At the age of 20 he began as a novice reporter, and later was promoted to chief reporter at Capitol Radio (now called FM104) in Dublin, Ireland. The year 1990 saw Cumbers relocated to United Kingdom to work with several British broadcasters which included the ITN’s Channel 4 News, Channel 4 Daily, Sky News, APTN, and the BBC. Cumbers worked as an editor and journalist. In the latter part of 1990 the journalist retrained and was cameraman too and established Locum Productions with his wife and BBC journalist Louise Bevan, to supply camera crews for broadcasters. Some of the topics Cumbers covered included the death of Nicolae Ceausescu during the Romanian Revolution; the 1990 release of Brian Keenan in Beirut, Lebanon and the end of the 1990s Drumcree conflict and The Good Friday Agreement and Omagh bombing in 1998 The Kursk submarine tragedy that occurred in the year 2000. in 2004 the Madrid train bombings in 2004. Cumbers also had interviewed Muammar Gaddafi on the subject of Libya.

Cumbers was among the 47 British as well as Irish journalists who died when they reported from abroad between 2001 and 2010.

Cumbers’ death was considered a murder in the UK. In Saudi Arabia, Adel al- Dhubaiti was arrested in 2004; tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death in November 2014, and executed 2 January 2016. Cumbers’ parents spoke out against his execution.

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Simon Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Simon Cumbers celebrates birthday on January 23 of every year.