Popular Investigative Journalist, Thomas Dixon has narrated how he was almost killed by two police officers on Friday 10th February 2023 at Krootown Road, sustaining serious Injuries.

Dixon posted on his Facebook page:

“I could have been killed by two police officers who were chasing a bike that was carrying me around Guy Street at Krootown Road. Sustained serious injuries…The two police officers called White Boy and Iron Brush almost killed me just few minutes ago.”

Thomas Dixson is a Sierra Leonean Investigative Journalist, Managing Editor at New Age Newspaper and also doubles as an Editor with Salone Times Newspaper.

Thomas has investigated a series of fraud and graft cases involving several mining companies, public and private members of the society with ties to top political officials in Sierra Leone and his works sometimes cause rancour among  government officials

The editor is also well known for speaking “truth to Power”, a philosophy that ‘Truth  must be told to those who wield Power’