Mark Williams-Thomas
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Mark Alan Williams-Thomas 9 January 1970 Billericay, Essex, England |
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| Occupation | Investigative reporter | ||
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Mark Alan Williams-Thomas (born 9 January 1970) is an English investigative journalist and former police officer. He is best known for exposing Jimmy Savile as a paedophile in The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, a television documentary he presented.
Williams-Thomas was a constable and family liaison officer with Surrey Police from 1989 to 2000. He was reportedly awarded several commendations.
In July 1997, Williams-Thomas led an investigation into public school teacher Adrian Stark, who was charged with possessing child pornography. Stark committed suicide at Beachy Head, East Sussex days after his arrest. In 1999 Williams-Thomas was involved in the investigation of Anthony Bridger who subsequently pleaded guilty to 32 serious sexual offences against boys and was jailed at the Central Criminal Court on 8 January 1999 for a minimum of 15-years. In 2000, Williams-Thomas was involved in the investigation into Jonathan King, which was launched by Mervyn McFadden of the National Criminal Intelligence Service and led by Detective Inspector Brian Marjoram. The investigation resulted in King's conviction for the sexual abuse of under-age boys.
Between 2001 and 2002, Williams-Thomas was the marketing manager and a director of GumFighters, a "national chewing gum removal specialist". The company were hired by various councils to clean their streets.
In 2003 Mark Williams-Thomas was charged with blackmailing a funeral home director, after alleging that there were multiple bodies buried in unmarked graves. An article ran in a national Sunday paper describing the mass burials. He was acquitted.
In 2005, he set up WT Associates, an independent child protection consultancy firm.
From 2003, due to his past in the police force, Williams-Thomas began script advising for various television crime dramas which included : BBC series Waking The Dead (2007-2011), BBC series Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2007), Ch5 series Murder Prevention (2004), ITV series Identity and BBC series The Silence.
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