Michael Wagstaffe

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Michael Wagstaffe was a journalist who worked as defence correspondent of the Daily Chronicle. He questioned Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart about the Oxley Woods meteorite shower and the Third Doctor's identity. (DW: Spearhead from Space)

Later that year, Wagstaffe was killed in the assassination attempt on Sir John Sudbury. (MA: The Scales of Injustice)