Declan Lawn is a screen writer and producer from N. Ireland, and a former investigative reporter with BBC Panorama. He was co-creator of The Salisbury Poisonings, a hugely popular fact-based BBC television drama mini-series, which portrayed the 2018 Novichok poisonings and decontamination crisis in Salisbury, England. The Salisbury Poisonings received the accolade as the UK's biggest TV premiére of 2020, based on viewing figures.