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Detective who exposed Jimmy Savile says there’s another ‘untouchable’ paedophile he’s trying to bring down
‘There is one very significant person who I’ve done everything to try and get prosecuted because he is clearly a child sex offender’
The detective who exposed Jimmy Savile has claimed there’s another high-profile paedophile he’s working to bring down.
Criminologist and former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas uncovered Savile’s sickening crimes in the 2012 ITV documentary The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, which exposed the once-beloved TV presenter as a child sex abuser.
Despite the scale of Savile’s abuse finally being brought to light, however, he died in 2011 at the age of eighty-four, meaning justice was never truly served.
But now, Williams-Thomas has revealed that he is continuing his work on exposing high-profile sex offenders and paedophiles amid concerns that history will repeat itself.
In a recent interview with iNews, the investigative journalist said there is a number of ‘untouchable’ offenders out there, as well as one ‘very significant person’.
He said: “There are still people out there who are untouchable… there is one very significant person who I’ve done everything to try and get prosecuted because he is clearly a child sex offender.
“To date, the CPS won’t prosecute. The police and I have tried really hard to get there.
“He will die in due course and then the floodgates will open in the same way they did with Savile. That’s not right. But justice takes many different forms.”
Williams-Thomas, who has previously worked as a family liaison officer with Surrey Police, added: “The truth is no broadcaster would have done a programme about Savile when he was alive.
“We live in a society where there are some people you can’t take on, and that’s really sad.”
Earlier this year, Williams-Thomas expressed his concern for Savile’s victims amid the release of Netflix’s docu-series Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story.
He said during an appearance on ITV’s This Morning: “My slight worry is that it sensationalises it rather than demonise him as an individual… I do worry as far as victims go, it’s one of the things that strongly gets criticised now when the story’s talked about, [is] seeing his face – his picture on the front page.”
He added: “And what we mustn’t forget, of course, is that it’s great to tell a story, but what we mustn’t forget is the victims – who have been through so much torment – to be in this position.”